Andreas Vrahimis - Publications

Selected Publications

Books:

Monographs:

Andreas Vrahimis, Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy, Cham: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022.

(Part of the History of Analytic Philosophy Book Series).

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 fashionable, L. Susan Stebbing, Bertrand Russell, Moritz Schlick, and Rudolf Carnap launched different critical attacks against some of Bergson’s views. This book examines this series of critical responses to Bergsonism early in the history of analytic philosophy. Analytic criticisms of Bergsonism were influenced by William James, who saw Bergson as an ‘anti-intellectualist’ ally of American Pragmatism, and Max Scheler, who saw him as a prophet of Lebensphilosophie. Some of the main analytic objections to Bergson are answered in the work of Karin Costelloe-Stephen. Analytic anti-Bergsonism accompanied the earlier refutations of idealism by Russell and Moore, and later influenced the Vienna Circle’s critique of metaphysics. It eventually contributed to the formation of the view that ‘analytic’ philosophy is divided from its ‘continental’ counterpart.

Andreas Vrahimis, Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Basingstoke, Hampshire: 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 side. Starting with Husserl and Frege's fin-de-siècle turn against psychologism, it turns to Carnap's 1931 attack on Heidegger's metaphysics (together with its background in the Cassirer-Heidegger dispute of 1929), moving on to Ayer's 1951 meeting with Bataille and Merleau-Ponty at a Parisian bar, followed by the 'dialogue of the deaf' between Oxford linguistic philosophers and phenomenologists at the 1951 Royaumont colloquium, leading up to the Derrida-Searle controversy. Careful study shows that it is implausible to assume the existence of a century-old 'gulf' between two sides of philosophy. I argue that miscommunication and ignorance over the exact content of the above encounters must to a large extent be held accountable for any perceived gap.

Articles in peer-reviewed Journals:

Andreas Vrahimis, 'The working of truths: Stebbing's debate with Schiller', Synthese, Volume 206, article number 153 (Published online first, 04 September 2025).

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Reconsidering Schlick's critique of Husserl', Husserl Studies (Published online first, 14 June 2025).

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Schlick on intuition and prediction', British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Published online first, 8 November 2024).

Andreas Vrahimis, 'The life sciences and the history of analytic philosophy', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Volume 46, Article no. 27 (2024). (Free to read here.)

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Another way of parting: Horkheimer, Schlick, Bergson', Geltung: Journal of Studies on the Origins of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Special issue on Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Revisiting the "Parting of Ways" (July 2024).

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Schlick, intuition, and the history of epistemology', European Journal of Philosophy (Published online first, 29 February 2024).

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Moritz Schlick's Evolutionary Game Theory', History of Philosophy Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4 (2023): 317-337.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Grace Andrus de Laguna’s 1909 critique of Pragmatism: A contextualist response to Katzav.’ Asian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2023): 1-13.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics', Philosophical Investigations, Volume 47, Issue 1 (2023), 76-100.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Algorithmic Opinion Mining and the History of Philosophy: A Response to Mizrahi’s For and Against Scientism', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Volume 12, Issue 5 (2023): 39-47.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Portraits, facial perception, and aspect-seeing’, British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 62, Issue 1 (2022): 85–100.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Aesthetics Naturalised: Schlick on the Evolution of Beauty and Art’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (Published online first, 16 September 2021)

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Wittgenstein, Loos, and the Critique of Ornament’, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 58, Issue 2 (2021), pp. 144-159.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘The Vienna Circle’s responses to Lebensphilosophie’, Logique et Analyse, Volume 253 (2021), pp. 43-66.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Unresolvable disagreements in Carnap’s metametaphysics’, Metaphilosophy, Volume52, Issue2 (2021), pp. 234-254..

Andreas Vrahimis, 'The Vienna Circle’s reception of Nietzsche', Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, Volume 8, Issue 9 (2020) .

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Scientism, Social Praxis, and overcoming Metaphysics: A debate between Logical Empiricism and the Frankfurt School’, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2020), pp. 562-597.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Wittgenstein and Heidegger against a Science of Aesthetics’, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 57, Issue 1 (2020), pp. 64-85.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Sense data and logical relations: Karin Costelloe-Stephen and Russell’s critique of Bergson', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 28, Issue 4 (2020), pp. 819-844. (First published online, Nov 9 2019).

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘The Analytic-Continental divide and the question of Philosophy's relation to Literature’, Philosophy and Literature, Volume 43, Issue 1 (2019), pp. 253-269.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘The Brentano school and the history of analytic philosophy: Reply to Röck’, Axiomathes, Volume 28, Issue 3 (2018), pp 363–374.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Is there a methodological divide between analytic and continental philosophy of music?: Reply to Roholt’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 76, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 108-111.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Legacies of German Idealism: From the Great War to the Analytic-Continental divide’, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Issue 22, (2015).

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Wittgenstein and the Phenomenological Movement: Reply to Monk’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3 (2014), pp. 341-348.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘“Was there a sun before men existed?” A. J. Ayer and French Philosophy in the fifties’. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, Volume 1, Issue 9 (2013).

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Is the Royaumont colloquium the locus classicus of the divide between Analytic and Continental Philosophy? Reply to Overgaard’. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 177-188, (2013).

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Modernism and the Vienna Circle's critique of Heidegger’. Critical Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 3 (2012), pp. 61-83.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Russell’s critique of Bergson and the divide between “Analytic” and “Continental” Philosophy’. Balkan Journal of Philosophy, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2011), (Special Issue dedicated to ‘The Dialogue between Continental and Analytic Philosophy’), pp. 123-134.

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Ryle and Sartre against Hume’s theory of the imagination.’ In Geoffrey Dierckxens, Galit Wellner, Marco Arienti (Eds), The Philosophy of Imagination: Technology, Art, Ethics (2024). London: Bloomsbury.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Schlick, Wittgenstein, and Waismann: Three Responses to Nietzsche'. In Shunichi Tagaki & Pascal F. Zambito (eds.), Wittgenstein and Nietzsche (2023), 47-76. New York: Routledge.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Neurath’s debate with Horkheimer and the critique of Verstehen'. In Adam Tamas Tuboly (ed.), The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy: Around Logical Empiricism (2022), 135-160. London: Bloomsbury.

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Russell reading Bergson'. In Mark Sinclair and Yaron Wolf (eds), The Bergsonian Mind (2021), Oxon: Routledge.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) without Politics?: Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism’. In Christian Damböck, Ádám Tamas Tuboly (Eds), The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 26), (2022), pp. 53-84. Cham: Springer.

Andreas Vrahimis, (2021), ‘Language, Truth, and Logic and the Anglophone reception of the Vienna Circle’. In Adam Tamas Tuboly (Ed.), The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic, pp. 41-68. Hampshire: Palgrave.

Andreas Vrahimis (2013), ‘Philosophy and humanistic education: J. S. Mill’s catastrophic pedagogy’, in Gerven Oei, V. W., Groves, A. S., Jenkins, N. (Eds,), Pedagogies of Disaster (pp. 299-330), Brooklyn, NY: Punctum.

Andreas Vrahimis, (2013), ‘Reconsidering the Divide between Analytic and Continental Philosophy’, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the ISSEI.

Articles in conference proceedings:

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Aesthetics, scientism, and ordinary language: A comparison between Wittgenstein and Heidegger’, Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, Vol. 10, (2018), pp. 659-684.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘On Russell’s projected review of Husserl’s Logische Untersuchungen’. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of ISSEI, (2013).

Critical Notices:

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Political Philosophy, political theory, and the analytic-continental divide’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (Published online, January 2022).

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Pragmatism and the History of the Analytic-Continental Divide', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 28, Issue 4 (2020), pp. 541-554.

Andreas Vrahimis, ‘The Intentionality of Speech Acts: A Confrontation between Ordinary Language Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Deconstruction?’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2015), pp. 584-594.

Reviews:

Andreas Vrahimis, Review of Moritz Schlick, Vorlesungen und Aufzeichnungen zur Geschichte und zum Begriff der Philosophie, ed. Martin Lemke, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Volume 15, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 283-287.

Andreas Vrahimis, Review of O. Nassim, Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers, Mind, Volume 125, Issue 498 (2016), pp 572-575.

Andreas Vrahimis, Review of Akehurst, T. L. (2010) ‘The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy: Britishness and the Spectre of Europe’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1 (2011), pp. 768-771.

Andreas Vrahimis, Review of Chase, J. & Reynolds, J. (2010) ‘Analytic versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4 (2011), pp. 633-637.

Outreach publications:

Andreas Vrahimis, 'Russell and Schlick on Work and Play'. The Bertrand Russell Society Bulletin, Number 163 (2021), pp. 52-60.

Christos Hadjichristos, Andreas Vrahimis, ‘Architecture and Philosophy’. JUCy, Journal of Architecture, Volume 3 (2015), pp. 186-188.

Andreas Vrahimis, (2011), ‘Approaches to the Analytic-Continental Divide: Merleau-Ponty's dialogue with Ryle’. De Filosoof, Volume 53 (2011), pp. 8-10.

Andreas Vrahimis, (2011), ‘Κρίσις, Critique, Europe’, Cyprus Dossier, Issue 1, pp. 30-31.

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