uncertainty

The article deals with the philosophical, physical and mathematical concepts of space. The novel topological ideas related with fractality phenomenon are discussed. Ontological meaning of fractality is cleared out. 

Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the eventuality of philosophy in the risk society through the anthropological consideration of the concepts of uncertainty, possibility, unpredictability, infi nity. The main diffi culty in risk analysis is that risk lies between rational and irrational, between certainty and uncertainty, between possibility and reality. Theoretical analysis. We are talking about the need for philosophical conceptualization of concepts, since the relations of definitions act as social and anthropological relations.

The research focus of the publication is the theory of the “Black Swan” of the modern philosopher N. Taleb, which is considered in the context of the risky measurement of society. “Black Swans” – events that have extremely low predictability, in terms of their impact, can dramatically transform the world. Today, the society is filled with extremely unpredictable events, which make its development as vague as possible.

The article discusses the methodological problems of researching risks in the social sciences and the ways of conceptualizing in social philosophy, posed and solved the question of the general methodological principles of researching social risks. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of ontological started risks associated with states of risk-taking reality and the structure of risk-taking space. Anthropological foundation of risks presented in the article with concept «ambivalent people». Investigates features of sociophilosophical and sociological discourses risks.