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Wittgenstein and Heidegger against a Science of Aesthetics
(Helsinki University Press, 2020)
Wittgenstein’s and Heidegger’s objections against the possibility of a science of aesthetics were influential on different sides of the analytic/continental divide. Heidegger’s anti-scientism leads him to an alētheic view ...
The Vienna Circle’s reception of Nietzsche
(2020)
Friedrich Nietzsche was among the figures from the history of nineteenth-century philosophy that, perhaps surprisingly, some of the Vienna Circle’s members had presented as one of their predecessors. While, primarily for ...
Scientism, social praxis, and overcoming metaphysics: a debate between logical empiricism and the Frankfurt School
(2020)
During the 1930s, while both movements were fleeing from persecution by the Nazis, the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt school planned to collaborate. The plan failed, and in its stead Horkheimer published a critique of the ...
Negotiating diplomacy in the New Europe: foreign policy in post-communist Bulgaria
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011-10-30)
Bulgaria has faced previously unimaginable pressures over the last two decades, as it struggles to adapt to a post-Communist landscape and to reform both state and society in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union, while ...
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement
(Walter de Gruyter, 2018)
In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers’ active ...
Plutarch's versatility
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
A review of (J.) Opsomer, (G.) Roskam, (F.B.) Titchener (edd.) A Versatile Gentleman. Consistency in Plutarch's Writing. Pp. vi + 304. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016.
Ethical Education in Plutarch
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
A review of (S.) Xenophontos Ethical Education in Plutarch. Moralising Agents and Contexts. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 349.) Pp. x + 266. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
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.
Sense data and logical relations: Karin Costelloe-Stephen and Russell’s critique of Bergson
(Routledge, 2020)
Though scholarship has explored Karin Costelloe-Stephen’s contributions to the history of psychoanalysis, as well as her relations to the Bloomsbury Group, her philosophical work has been almost completely ignored. This ...