• Book  

      Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (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 ...
    • Article  

      Moritz Schlick's evolutionary game theory 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (University of Illinois Press, 2023)
      The early Schlick developed an evolutionary biological account of play. He contrasted play with work. Where work encompasses all activity that is undertaken for the sake of some practical outcome, play renders what was ...
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      Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Springer, 2022)
      With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, there emerged two controversies related to the responsibility of philosophical ideas for the rise of German militarism. The first, mainly journalistic, controversy concerned ...
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      Schlick, Wittgenstein, and Waismann: Three Responses to Nietzsche 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Routledge, 2023)
      It is commonly assumed that while Nietzsche’s intellectual influence significantly marked 20th century ‘continental’ philosophy, his sway over analytic philosophy was conspicuously minimal. To challenge this received view, ...
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      The Vienna Circle’s responses to Lebensphilosophie 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (2021)
      The history of early analytic philosophy, and especially the work of the logical empiricists, has often been seen as involving antagonisms with rival schools. Though recent scholarship has interrogated the Vienna Circle’s ...