Introduction. The article tackles the problem of changing the role and place of philosophy in the mass education system. Today, mass education is closely connected with pragmatisation and technologisation; and these two processes spawn a concern whether it is useful to study philosophy, and, as a consequence, an aspiration to transform the understanding of teaching itself.Aim. The aim of the present paper was to reconceptualise the bespoke teaching experience within the framework of personalised academic tracks launched in the University of Tyumen in an attempt to address the problem.Methodology and research methods. The theoretical part of the research lays out the foundation of philosophy teaching as a mimetic practice based on a methodology, which is developed through the following concepts: the dichotomy of E. Giddens’ practical and discursive consciousness, M. Polanyi’s tacit knowledge, E. Mach’s economy of thought, and C. Wulf’s mimesis. This was a starting point of a philosophy teaching practice that was tested on a batch of students, approximately a quarter of which agreed to take an anonymous survey about the process and the results of the joined work.Results and scientific novelty. A draft of a conceptual foundation of mass philosophy teaching in the current context is laid out. At the core of the process, there is a mimetic transfer of tacit knowledge, ensuring a skill to philosophise. This process presupposes an interaction of four actors: a teacher, a student, a text and a group of students. The lecture is a demonstration of a personal philosophic style, and the Socratic seminar is a joint practice with an unpredictable finale. In this practice, there is a system, where the teacher is an inquiring moderator launching the student’s personal search, the text provides a connection with a philosophic tradition, and the group – with the everyday life. The survey showed that this approach is effective: students like the process, they understand the connection of the philosophical ideas with the real life, and they track the level of their own understanding of philosophical texts.Practical significance. The research results may be useful for other philosophy teachers who on the basis of this study may adjust their teaching practices to a mass philosophy course delivered in the current conditions; and for further development of the theory, first and foremost, in terms of formulating the philosophical content being used.

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The interaction processes of heavy ions and ionized matter have been investigated extensivly during the last years. The plasmaphysics-group at GSI-Dmstadt has contributed to this research in several fields. At low ion energies (E = 45 keV/u) it was possible to create a heavy-ion heated plasmas with a high current radio-frequency-quadrupol (RFQ) accelerator. The interaction of this low energy beam with extemal generated hydrogen plasmas (ne = 1017 cmm3) showed an increased stopping by a factor of 35 in the plasma compared to a cold gas.In the medium energy range ( 1.5 MeVh < E < 10 Mevh) it was possible to see the effects of the enhanced stopping power of plasma ( 1017 cm-3 < ne < 1019 cm-3) due to the presence of free electrons. Furthermore the effect of the plasma to the ionisation-recombination balance of the heavy ions traversing the plasma was investigated. In the high energy range ( E > 100 MeV/u) the first hydrodynamic motion of heavy ion heated rare gas crystals has been observed recently. The aquisition of a high power Nd:Glass laser (E -100 J, t = 20 ns) makes it now possible to extend the density range of the extemally generated plasmas far beyound ne = 1019 cm-3. An overview of the recent experiments will be given and the impact of laser-produced plasmas in the framework of the progam investigating the interaction of heavy ions with ionized matter will be discussed. 3FP06Experiments on a laser-produced plasma cross-field motion f o r simulation of i n t e r a c t i o n between CRRES releases and geoplasma. Y u . P. Lakharov, J.Wolowski* I n s t . Laser Phys., Russ. Acad. Sci. Novosib., Russia * I n s t . Plasma Phys.Laser Microfusion ,Warsaw, Poland A new c l a s s of simulation experiments with l a s e rproduced plasmas i s discussed with reference t o recent r e s u l t s of CRRES-mission investigations. For b e t t e r understanding of a 1ow-M~ i n t e r a c t i o n processes of ionospheric (VC 36.064 CE o r G-9) and inagnetospheric (G-10) Barium r e l e a s e s [l] with a surrounding magnetized geoplasma, simulation experiments a r e proposed a t high-intensity magnetic f i e l d s (BO 2 10-20 kGs) and with t h e presence of a low-density p a r t i a l l y ionized background. Such experiments have become possible owing t o successful simulations [2] of t h e AMPTE-release and preliminary s t u d i e s of c r o s s -f i e l d plasma motion a t BoSlO kGs, performed a t t h e "KI-1" f a c i l i t y [3] i n Novosibirsk, a s well a s due t o extension of t h e p o s s i b i l i t i e s of high-intensity magnetic f i e l d laser-produced plasma i n t e r a c t i o n experiments i n Warsaw [4]. In p a r t i c u l a r , Hi e hope t o achieve t h e value of t h e main 4 i m i l a r i t y c r i t e r i o n [3] of t h e problem of t h e ion magnetization parameter, C B = RH/RB S 0.3, i n common simulation experiments, which corresponds t o t h e parameters of t h e G-10 r e l e a s e with Ba-ion directed Larmor r a d i u s , RH -10km, and Bacloud stopping radius, R E = (~E O / B~) ' '~* 30 km, a t magnetic f ...

The article discusses the feasibility and vistas of re-defining the concept «society» in an effort to make it fit for studying the current situation. The constant mobility of actors and the new virtual reality transcend the boundaries between social groups, which calls methodological capacity of any static and especially essentialistic understanding of the phenomenon called «society» into question. The author starts from defining society through communication acts, but at the same time distinguishes between them by the level of mutual understanding attained through communication, which makes it possible to scrutinize the internal structure of the term in question. Understanding of communication acts as a medium of memetic influence that shapes a person’s agency and ensures synchronicity between persons, adequate for a certain level of mutual understanding, enables the author to view society as a dynamic process, as a memetic field amid constantly changing and diverse challenges. The landscape contour of the challenges adds constant disturbing differentiations that guarantee continual social changes. By contrasting practical and discursive minds, the author discriminates non-reflexive mimetic processes of practical knowledge transfer from their reflexive comprehension. Thus, the author distinguishes two levels in social processes, incompatibility between which adds complexity to social dynamics. Using this understanding of the social, the author shows how in certain conditions a person may identify with a certain social group. In conclusion, the paper formulates three main practical questions the answers to which will let us assess the possibilities for further development of society.