Browsing by Faculty "008 Φιλοσοφική Σχολή / Faculty of Letters"
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5280. Themistius VI 71d–72a, 72d–73a
(The Egypt Exploration Society, 2017)An edition with commentary of a papyrus of Themistius VI 71D-72A, 72D-73A
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Aesthetics Naturalised: Schlick on the Evolution of Beauty and Art
(De Gruyter, 2021)In his earliest philosophical work, Moritz Schlick developed a proposal for rendering aesthetics into a field of empirical science. His 1908 book Lebensweisheit developed an evolutionary account of the emergence of both ...
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Aesthetics, scientism, and ordinary language: a comparison between Wittgenstein and Heidegger
(European Society for Aesthetics, 2018)Wittgenstein and Heidegger’s objections against the possibility of an aesthetic science were influential on different sides of the analytic/continental divide. Heidegger’s anti-scientism is tied up with a critique of the ...
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Algorithmic Opinion Mining and the History of Philosophy: A Response to Mizrahi’s For and Against Scientism.
(2023)At the heart of Mizrahi’s project lies a sociological narrative concerning the recent history of philosophers’ negative attitudes towards scientism. Critics (e.g. de Ridder (2019), Wilson (2019) and Bryant (2020)), have ...
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Analytic versus Continental: arguments on the methods and value of philosophy
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)
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The "Analytic"/"Continental" divide and the question of philosophy's relation to literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
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Ancient Biography and Fictionalization
(University of Alberta, 2017)A review of K. De Temmerman and K. Demoen, edd., Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 354.
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Another way of parting: Horkheimer, Schlick, Bergson
(2024)Despite its formative influence on the subsequent emergence of a supposed ‘divide’ between ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ philosophy, the clash between the phenomenological tradition and early analytic philosophy is only a ...
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Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy
(Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2022)During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson became an international celebrity, profoundly influencing contemporary intellectual and artistic currents. While Bergsonism was ...
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Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian philosophers: constructing the world, by Omar W. Nasim
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
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The breast as locus for punishment
(Routledge, 2023)This chapter traces the textual and visual traditions of punishments meted out to female sinners in the afterlife for the transgression of refusing to nurse infants. It postulates an Egyptian element, and perhaps a monastic ...
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The Brentano School and the History of Analytic Philosophy: Reply to Röck
(Springer, 2018)In ‘Brentano’s Methodology as a Path through the Divide’, Röck makes two related claims. (A) Röck argues that there exists a philosophical dilemma between description and logical analysis, and that the current divide between ...
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Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities
(Anthem Press: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2011)Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities' offers an in-depth analysis of Bulgaria’s relationship with the European continent. These essays examine how Bulgarian historiography and literature over the centuries have created ...
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Bulgaria and Europe: shifting identities
(Anthem Press, 2010)Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities' offers an in-depth analysis of Bulgaria’s relationship with the European continent. These essays examine how Bulgarian historiography and literature over the centuries have created ...
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Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem
(Springer, 2023)A well-known difculty that afects all accounts of laws of nature according to which the latter are higher-order facts involving relations between universals (the so-called DTA accounts, from Dretske in Philosophy of Science ...
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The cultural politics of analytic philosophy: britishness and the spectre of Europe
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)
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The Digression on Cyprus in Claudian’s Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii et Mariae
(Walter de Gruyter, 2023)In Claudian’s epithalamium for Honorius and Maria, which celebrates the marriage of the emperor to Stilocho’s daughter in 398 CE, Cupid visits Venus’ palace in Cyprus, and a significant part of the poem (lines 49-108) is ...
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Dreams and moral reflection in Plutarch’s lives
(Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου-Καρδαμίτσα, 2020)This paper shows that dreams and dreaming in Plutarch’s Lives are designed to work in tandem with other creative narrative devices in order to provoke the readers to engage in an active inquiry into the character and ...
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Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)In this volume a distinguished international team of scholars examines the history of drugs within all the major medical traditions of the medieval Mediterranean, namely Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin, and in so ...
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Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)Twentieth-century philosophy has often been pictured as divided into two camps, analytic and continental. This study challenges this depiction by examining encounters between some of the leading representatives of either ...