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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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Review
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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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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Review
Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian philosophers: constructing the world, by Omar W. Nasim
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
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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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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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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 ...
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Review
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.
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Generic and intertextual enrichment: Plutarch’s Alexander 30
(Brill, 2020)This chapter examines Plutarch’s engagement with other texts and genres in a single scene from the Life of Alexander, that of Darius’ discussion with the eunuch Tireus (Alex. 30), and the effects which such generic and ...
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Grace Andrus de Laguna’s 1909 critique of pragmatism and absolute idealism: a contextualist response to Katzav
(Springer, 2023)In a move characteristic of appropriationist approaches to the history of philosophy, Katzav (Asian Journal of Philosophy 2(47):1–26, Katzav, 2023a) argues that Grace Andrus de Laguna had, already in 1909, developed what ...
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Group minds in ancient narrative: Herodian’s history of the Roman Empire as a case study
(Brill, 2023)The present article adopts a cognitive approach to examine the representation of group minds in ancient narrative and show the specific purposes to which they are put. Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire, a work that ...
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Herodian and Cassius Dio: a study of Herodian's compositional devices
(2020)Herodian applies to Dio’s text displacement, omission, and modification of context in order to bring out themes and ideas that are essential to his own understanding of the post-Marcus world.