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52Aesthetics Naturalised: Schlick on the Evolution of Beauty and ArtArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 105 (3): 470-498. 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 scientific knowledge and aesthetic feelings from play. This constitutes the framework of Schlick’s evolutionary psychological methodology for examining the origins of the aesthetic feeling of the beautiful he proposed in 1909. He defends his methodology by objecting to both exper…Read more
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51Is There a Methodological Divide between Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music? Response to RoholtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (1): 108-111. 2018.Roholt’s discussion of the methodological divide between analytic and continental philosophy of music is undertaken with the hope of bringing about the divide’s dissolution. Roholt limits the scope of the discussion to methodological debates in the philosophy of music, without referring to the ongoing debate about the divide at large. This begs the question of how methodological differences in the philosophy of music correlate with differences between analytic and continental philosophy. Upon c…Read more
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41The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy: Britishness and the Spectre of Europe (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (5). 2011.
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38Schlick, intuition, and the history of epistemologyEuropean Journal of Philosophy. 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 upheld from Plato onwards. This challenge led to an ongoing reappraisal of the historical significance of intuitive knowledge, in which the knower is intimately connected to what is known. Such traditional accounts of intuition, and their accompanying claims to epistemolog…Read more
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29Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethicsPhilosophical Investigations 47 (1): 76-100. 2023.In conversations with Schlick and Waismann from June and December 1930, Wittgenstein began to turn his attention to the topic of games. This topic also centrally concerned Schlick. In his earliest philosophical output, Schlick had relied on the results of evolutionary biology in setting out an account of the emergence of the human species’ ability to play [Spiel] as a prerequisite for the genesis of scientific knowledge. Throughout his subsequent works one finds fragmentary appeals to this early…Read more
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28Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World, by Omar W. Nasim (review)Mind 125 (498): 572-575. 2016.
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19Schlick, Wittgenstein, and Waismann: Three Responses to NietzscheIn Shunichi Tagaki & Pascal F. Zambito (eds.), Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, Routledge. pp. 47-76. 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, this essay demonstrates that the reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy formed a space of dialogue among three founding figures of analytic philosophy: Schlick, Wittgenstein, and Waismann. A significant Nietzschean influence guided Schlick’s project of naturalising ethics. Schlic…Read more
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16Moritz Schlick's Evolutionary Game TheoryHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 40 (4): 317-337. 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 previously a mere means into an end enjoyable in itself. Schlick thus distinguished between aesthetic, religious, scientific, and ethical game types. This paper shows that this typology underlies his later attempts to naturalize these fields, and allows us to clarify the relation …Read more
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13Grace Andrus de Laguna’s 1909 critique of pragmatism and absolute idealism: A contextualist response to KatzavAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2): 1-13. 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 is effectively a critique of analytic philosophy (as a form of epistemically conservative philosophy). In response to Katzav’s claim, this symposium paper attempts to pay closer attention to the context of de Laguna’s paper. As Katzav also acknowledges, de Laguna was dialogicall…Read more
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Husserl, Frege, and the Analytical-Continental divideYearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 11 164-179. 2011.