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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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Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and the Analytic-Continental Divide
Vrahimis, Andreas (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
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Portraits, Facial Perception, and Aspect-Seeing
Vrahimis, Andreas (Oxford University Press, 2022)Is there a substantial difference between a portrait depicting the sitter’s face made by an artist and an image captured by a machine able to simulate the neuro-physiology of facial perception? Drawing on the later ...
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Pragmatism and the History of the Analytic-Continental Divide
Vrahimis, Andreas (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
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Russell reading Bergson
Vrahimis, Andreas (Taylor & Francis, 2021)This chapter examines Bertrand Russell’s various confrontations with Bergson’s work. Russell’s meetings with Bergson during 1911 would be followed in 1912 by the publication of Russell’s earliest polemical pieces. His 1912 ...
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Russell’s critique of Bergson and the divide between “Analytic” and “Continental” Philosophy
Vrahimis, Andreas (2011)In 1911, Bergson visited Britain for a number of lectures which led to his increasing popularity. Russell personally encountered Bergson during his lecture at University College London on the 28th of October, and on the ...
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Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics
Vrahimis, Andreas (Wiley, 2023)In conversations with Schlick and Waismann from June to December 1930, Wittgenstein began to turn his attention to the topic of games. This topic also centrally concerned Schlick. In his earliest philosophical output, ...
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Schlick, intuition, and the history of epistemology
Vrahimis, Andreas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2024)Maria Rosa Antognazza's work has issued a historical challenge to the thesis that the analysis of knowledge (as justified true belief) attacked by epistemologists from Gettier onwards was indeed the standard view traditionally ...
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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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Scientism, social praxis, and overcoming metaphysics: a debate between logical empiricism and the Frankfurt School
Vrahimis, Andreas (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 ...
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Sense data and logical relations: Karin Costelloe-Stephen and Russell’s critique of Bergson
Vrahimis, Andreas (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 ...
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Unresolvable disagreements in Carnap’s metametaphysics
Vrahimis, Andreas (Wiley, 2021)Carnap’s 1931 attack against metaphysics notoriously utilises Heidegger’s work to exemplify the meaninglessness of metaphysical pseudo-statements. This paper interprets Carnap’s metametaphysics as concerned with delimiting ...
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The Vienna Circle’s reception of Nietzsche
Vrahimis, Andreas (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 ...
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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 ...
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Voluntarism in Susan Stebbing (1885–1943)
Vrahimis, Andreas (2020)In her earliest writings, Stebbing (1913, 1914) broadly defines “voluntarism” as the thesis that “will is more fundamental than intellect” (1914: 13), which can have psychological, metaphysical, and epistemological ...
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"Was There a Sun Before Men Existed?": A. J. Ayer and French Philosophy in the fifties
Vrahimis, Andreas (Textor, Mark, 2013)In contrast to many of his contemporaries, A. J. Ayer was an analytic philosopher who had sustained throughout his career some interest in developments in the work of his ‘continental’ peers. Ayer, who spoke French, held ...
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Wittgenstein and Heidegger against a Science of Aesthetics
Vrahimis, Andreas (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 ...
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Wittgenstein and the phenomenological movement: reply to Monk
Vrahimis, Andreas (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)Monk’s ‘The Temptations of Phenomenology’ examines what the term ‘Phänomenologie’ meant for Wittgenstein. Contesting various other scholars, Monk claims that Wittgenstein’s relation to ‘Phänomenologie’ began and ended ...
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Wittgenstein, Loos, and the Critique of Ornament
Vrahimis, Andreas (Helsinki University Press, 2021)Adolf Loos is one of the few figures that Wittgenstein explicitly named as an influence on his thought. Loos’s influence has been debated in the context of determining Wittgenstein’s relation to modernism, as well as in ...