Books
- Friends have All Things in Common: Theories of Common Property in the European Tradition, forthcoming
- The Drama of Philosophy from Erasmus to Kant [in Romanian], Ratio & Revelatio, forthcoming
- Kant, God and Metaphysics, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2017, 462 pages, review1, review2, review3
- Frege, Continuum, London, 2012, review1, review2, review3, review4
- Dialogues with Norman Manea [in Romanian], Polirom, Iasi, 2010, translated into Italian 2017
- Wittgenstein and His Interpreters. Essays in Memory of G. P. Baker, Blackwell, Oxford, 2007, xiv + 352 pages, co-edited
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Reaktion Books, London, 2007, 223 pages; translated into Russian, Turkish, Chinese
- Analytic Philosophy [in German], Campus, Frankfurt & New York, 2004, 173 pages
Recent and forthcoming articles
- On the Use and Misuse of the Sciences in the Humanities, in D. Dumbrava et al. (eds.), In-cognita. Ioan Petru Culianu’s Approaches to Religion, Zetabooks, 2023
- Neuere Forschungen zu Freges Logik, in Philosophische Rundschau, forthcoming 2023
- Wittgenstein and Bede Rundle, forthcoming 2023
- The Desolation of our Time: Celan’s Struggle with Heidegger, in P. d’Oriano, Pietro & J. Rogove (eds.), Heidegger and his Anglo-American Reception, 2022, pp. 331-365
- Life’s Affirmation and Denial: Nietzsche and Christianity, in D. Came (ed.), Nietzsche Reader, Oxford University Press, 2022
- The Four Stages of Communism, Part 1, Part2
- Kants Auffassung der Mathematik als Ideal der Philosophie und das Bedeutungsproblem, Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, vol. 13, 2020, pp. 57-74
- What is in a Definition? Understanding Frege’s Account, Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, vol. 10, 2018, pp. 7-46
- Die Idee einer mathematischen Philosophie: Von Lullus bis zur funktionalen Semantik, Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, vol. 8, 2018, pp. 73-98
- Emil Cioran als Nihilist, Skeptiker und politischer Denker, Philosophische Rundschau, 64:4, 2017, pp. 349-374
- Involved Philosophy, Naturalism and the Human Predicament, in F. Ellis (ed.), New Models of Religious Understanding, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, pp. 59-78
- Reason’s Disunity With Itself: Adrian Moore on Kant’s Dialectic of Human Reason, Kantian Review, 21 (3), 2016, pp. 483-493
- Privacy and Private Language, in H.-J. Glock/J. Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley, Oxford/New York 2017, pp. 445-464
- Communism: The Shadows of a Utopia, Baltic Worlds, Vol VII:4, 2014, pp. 4-11
- Hegel's Tale in Romania, in L. Herzog (ed.), Hegel's Thought in Europe: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2013
- Bodies in Prolegomena §13: Noumena or Phenomena?, Hegel Bulletin, 34:2, 2013, pp. 181-202
- The Ideality of Space and Time: Trendelenburg versus Kant, Fischer and Bird, Kantian Review, 18:2, 2013, pp. 263-88; with a reply by Professor Graham Bird, Kantian Review, 18:2, 2013, pp. 289-300
- Philosophy as Poetry? Reflections on Wittgenstein’s Style, Wittgenstein Studien, 3:1, 2012, pp. 95-132
- Kripke’s Metalinguistic Apparatus and the Analysis of Definite Descriptions, Philosophical Studies, 156: 3, 2011, pp. 363-87 [Penultimate draft.pdf]
- Memory, Justice and the Court: On the Dimensions of Memory-Justice Under the Rome Statute, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 24: 3, 2011, pp. 425-47, co-authored with Christopher J. Piranio
- Frege’s Definition of Number: No Ontological Agenda?, Hungarian Philosophical Review, 54: 4, 2010, pp. 76-92
- On the Moral Dimension of the Investigation of Totalitarianism [in German], in Hammerstein et al. (eds.), Diktaturüberwindung in Europa, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2010, [Penultimate draft.pdf]
- Puzzles about Descriptive Names, Linguistics and Philosophy, 32: 4, 2009, pp. 409-428
- On Truth in Holocaust diaries [in German], Sinn und Form, 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 343-52
Shorter pieces (op-eds, reviews etc.)
- "There is a huge amount of injustice in who causes climate change and who will suffer most", interview with climate scientist Prof. Daniela Schmidt, Contributors.ro, December 2022
- Der Ukraine-Krieg stürzt Armenien ins Dilemma, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3.5.2022
- Armenien und seine historische Pein, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13.8.2021
- Klimaschutz und Kapitalismus, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14.7.2021
- Bernward Gesang, Mit kühlem Kopf. Über den Nutzen der Philosophie für die Klimadebatte, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21.6.2021
- Freiheit contra Verantwortung: Kein Ausweg aus dem Corona-Dilemma, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25.7.2020
- Klimawandel: Warum Thunberg richtig liegt und Ferguson falsch, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13.9.2019
- Oliver Thorndike, Kant's Transition Project and Late Philosophy, 73:1, 2019
- Martin Heidegger, Anmerkungen I-V (Schwarze Hefte 1942-1948), The Review of Metaphysics, 72:2, 2018
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers, 2021
- Persönliche Tragödien. In England ansässige Ausländer und der Brexit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7.12.2018
- “Both a 'political religion' and a 'religious state' are nothing more than monstrous structures, which defile both the idea of law and the idea of religion”, interview with Ruhi Demiray, Observator Cultural, September 2018
- Nationalism and Philosophy, interview by Jonathan Egid, 42 Magazine, March 2018
- Funktionalismus, Realismus, Humanismus [obituary on Hilary Putnam], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 15.3.2016
- Hitler, Atatürk and the German-Turkish relations, interview with Stefan Ihrig, Armenian Weekly, 30.10.2015 [Romanian translation here, Turkish here, Dutch here]
- Philosophy's Divide, Minerva podcast with Joshua Gottlieb on the relation between analytic and continental philosophy, August 2015
- Neue Forschungsliteratur über den Genozid an den Armeniern [Recent research on the Armenian genocide], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29.4.2015, reprinted in Armenian and Russian here
- Das namenlose Dorf [On the Armenian genocide], Tachles - Das jüdische Monatsmagazin, 24.4.2015, reprinted in Romanian here
- Den Willen und die Knochen brechen. Aufarbeitung des Kommunismus in Rumänien [On the prosecution of Communist crimes in Romania], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14.9.2014
- Interview with Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU) about the Gaza conflict, Observator Cultural, August 2014
- Frederick C. Beiser, Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13.6.2014
- The Heidegger Case - A Retrospective [in Romanian], Observator Cultural, nr. 461, 17-30 April 2014 (part 2 with a debate with Romanian anti-Semites)
- P. M. S. Hacker, Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (2007) and The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature (2013), Philosophical Quarterly, 64:257, October 2014
- Alexander Baumgarten, Metaphysics, The Review of Metaphysics, 67:4, June 2014
- Samuel Fleischacker, What Is Enlightenment?, European Journal of Philosophy, 22:S3, September 2014
- Tristesse und Widerstand: Anne Applebaums meisterhafte Studie über die Stalinisierung Osteuropas, review of Anne Applebaum, Der Eiserne Vorhang. Die Unterdrückung Osteuropas 1944–1956 [original: The Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956], Die Zeit, 30.1.2014
- Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Formen der Anschauung. Eine Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophical Investigations, 37:1, 2014
- Michael Franz, Tübinger Platonismus: Die gemeinsamen philosophischen Anfangsgründe von Hölderlin, Schelling und Hegel, Hegel Bulletin, 34:1, 2014, pp. 116-22
- Wissen, wo die Gräber liegen [Knowing where the victims of Communism are buried], in K. Kilzer/H. Müller-Enbergs (eds.), Geist hinter Gittern. Die rumänische Gedenkstätte Memorial Sighet, Berlin 2013, pp. 183-92
- How the Romanian Government Wants to 'Improve' the Constitution, verfassungsblog.de, 14.6.2013, co-authored with Cristina Arion (European Parliament) [German version]
- Conference report on workshop "Legality and Legitimacy: From Weimar 1932 to Bucharest 2012?", verfassungsblog.de, 13.5.2013 [Romanian version, more detailed version]
- Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, Warum Nationen scheitern, Glanz&Elend [review of Why Nations Fail], May 2013
- Daniel Robinson, How is Nature Possible: Kant's Project in the First Critique, The Review of Metaphysics, 66:3, March 2013 [read here]
- Das Gespenst des Autoritarismus [The Ghost of Authoritarianism] op-ed in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 17.6.2012
- Recenzie la o recenzie [on the memory and denial of the Holocaust in Romania and Germany], Observator Cultural, January 2011
- Wolfgang Ewen, Carl Stumpf und Gottlob Frege, Philosophical Investigations, 34:3, 2011
- Michael Lynch, Why Truth Matters, Philosophical Investigations, 30:4, 2007
- Brian McGuinness, Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers, Philosophical Investigations, 28:1, 2005
- Peter Hacker, Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 56:4, 2003
- Timothy McCarthy/Sean C. Stidd: Wittgenstein in America, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 55:4, 2002
- Casting Light on the Long Shadow of Romania's Securitate, Caietele Echinox, 1/2001, co-authored with Suzanne Travers
Some recent talks (selected recordings here)
- Medieval Communism, Humane Philosophy Society, University of Oxford, March 2023
- A Kantian Approach to the Climate Problem, Econ Initiative, CEC, Brussels
- Kant und das Klimaproblem, Workshop Kant und die Gegenwart, Bochum University, December 2022
- Heidegger and the Earth Myth, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Lincoln, May 2022
- Collectivism and a Life According to Nature – From the Ancients to the Moderns, and Back Again, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Lincoln, February 2020
- The Public and the Private Realm, workshop on Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, University of Kent, October 2019
- Cosmopolitanism and the Challenge of Climate Change”, Econ Initiative (discussion group of EU officials), Brussels, October 2019
- Zur Aktualität von Kants Vergleich der Philosophie mit der Mathematik in der Preisschrift von 1764, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Seminar zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, University of Münster, July 2019
- Cosmopolitanism – A Historical Overview, workshop Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global Challenges, Brussels School of International Studies, June 2019
- Reply to My Critics, Book Symposium on Kant, God and Metaphysics, The Oxford Forum
& The Stanford University Centre in Oxford, May 2019
- Gewissheit: Ein Grundproblem des Fallibilismus und Infallibilismus, Workshop "Fallibilismus und Gewissheit",
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Darmstadt, March 2018
- Ist alles ohne Sinn und Wert? Varianten des Nihilismus in der Philosophie, Philosophisches Kolloquium, Universität Wuppertal, January 2018
- Sovereignty in the Constitutional State, workshop "Sovereignty Revisited", Centre for Practical Reasoning, University of Kent, December 2017
- Kantian Elements in Kelsen’s Pure Theory and Political Theory, conference "Kant on Political Change", ECPR General Conference, Oslo, September 2017
- Public debate on Brexit, University of Kent, September 2017
- "Corriere dell'Est" (public discussion with Norman Manea on friendship, politics, philosophy), Circolo dei Lettori, Turin & Feltrinelli Duomo, Milan, September 2017
- Heidegger and Celan on the Devastation of this Age, conference "Celan and Heidegger - Fifty Years after Todtnauberg", Canterbury, June 2017
- Alles ist Nichts - Vom Wert des Nihilismus, Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft, Oldenburg, May 2017
- Aristotle on the Human Good - An Introduction to Policy Makers, Econ Initiative, Brussels, January 2017
- The Complexities of Ethnic Identity – Some Personal Remarks, conference “Ethnic and National identity in a Europe of Diasporas”, University of Bucharest, November 2016
- The Worst Form of Government? A Defense of Liberalism, round table discussion, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, October 2016
- The French Revolution and the Right to Rebellion: Kant’s Case, University of Kent, Paris, July 2016
- Die Idee einer mathematischen Philosophie: Von Descartes bis Frege, Institut für Philosophie, TU Darmstadt, May 2016
- Hermeneutics and the Ethics of Conflict Resolution, University of Keele, KOSAK Research Centre, March 2016
- Kant on Metaphysics and Religion. An Introduction for Policy Makers. Part II, Econ Initiative, Brussels, February 2016
- Nietzsche as a Christian, Philosophy Club, University of Hull, February 2016
- Life's Affirmation and Denial: Nietzsche and Christianity, The Centre for Philosophy and Religion, Heythrop College, London, January 2016
- Kant on Metaphysics and Religion. An Introduction for Policy Makers. Part I, Econ Initiative, Brussels, December 2015
- Empire, Revolution and Genocide: the Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire 1894-1916, summer school of the University of Kent, Paris, July 2015
- Das mathematische Paradigma in der Philosophie. Ein kritischer Rundgang durch die Philosophiegeschichte, Faculty of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, July 2015
- Heidegger and Celan on the Essence of Poetry, conference "La Reception Anglo-Américaine de la Pensée de Martin Heidegger", University of Chicago in Paris, January 2015
- The Roots of Communist Repression, conference "25 Years After the Revolution", Civic Academy Foundation & The Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Timişoara, Romania, December 2014 [interview with Radio Timisoara in German]
- Reason’s Division Against Itself: Comments on Adrian Moore on Kant’s Dialectic of Human Reason, Kant Festival, Keele University, November 2014
- Communism and Its Memory, Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, November 2014 [audio]
- Philosophie und Mathematik: Episoden einer problematischen Symbiose, Philosophisches Kolloquium, University of Leipzig, July 2014
- Kant's Fictions: The As-If Role of the Ideas of Reason, conference "Fictions", University of Bucharest, April 2014 [video]
- The Mathematical Paradigm in Philosophy: On Frege's Concept-Script, conference "Mind, Language, World: From Dilthey to Wittgenstein", Second Later German Philosophy Conference, University of Kent, September 2013 [audio]
- To What Extent Was Kant a Panentheist?, First Kant Leuven Conference, University of Leuven, May 2013
- 'A Symbol of Divine Omnipresence'? Theological Aspects of Kant's Conception of Space, Durham University, May 2013
- Space and God in Kant, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Hull, April 2013
- Weimar's Constitutional Weakness and Crisis, and Carl Schmitt's, Hans Kelsen's and Hermann Heller's Responses, workshop "Legality and Legitimacy: From Weimar 1932 to Bucharest 2012?", Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent, Brussels, April 2013 [audio1] [audio2]
- Hölderlin's Metaphysics, Aesthetics Research Group, School of Arts, University of Kent, November 2012 [Hölderlin's "Being, Judgment, Modality"] [audio]
- Trendelenburg vs. Kant on the Ideality of Space, conference After Kant: Beyond Transcendental Idealism, First Later German Philosophy Conference, University of Kent, September 2012 [audio]
- "The Darkness of the Poem is the Darkness of Death" - Celan and the Limits of Heidegger's Thinking about Poetry, German Department, University of Kent, May 2012 [audio]
- Judging and the Judgement-Stroke in Frege’s Logic, University of Kent, February 2012
- Frege on Definitions, Seventh European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, University of Milan, September 2011
- Bodies in Kant’s Prolegomena, UK Kant Society Annual Conference, University of St Andrews, September 2011
- On Expressing the Nightmare: Paul Celan and Norman Manea, Bard Graduate Center, New York, June 2011 [video]
- Culianu's Morphodynamics: Reflections on His Approach to the History of Religions, A Symposium In Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu, Jesus College, Oxford, May 2011 [audio]
- A Thinker’s Word to Come? Heidegger and Celan, Post-Kantian Seminar, University of Oxford, March 2011
- The Explanation of Thinking and Reasoning: from Kaplan to Frege, University of Kent, February 2011
- Paul Celan and Benjamin Fondane: A Dialogue with Norman Manea, Faculty of Letters, Bucharest University, November 2010
- The Unconditioned. God in Kant’s First Critique, Heythrop College, London, October 2010
- Pragmatics in Woodstock: A Linguistic Approach to Subversive Music, seminar "Art and Action in the 1960s", University of Oxford, Oriel College, June 2010
- The Concept of Victimhood, workshop "Victims: Figures of Violence, Embodiments of Trauma", University of Cambridge, June 2010
- Philosophy as Poetry? On Wittgenstein’s Style, Complutense University of Madrid, March 2010
- Reconsidering Frege’s Judgement Stroke, Central European University, Budapest, February 2010
- The Reference of Numerals in Frege, Logic, Language, Mathematics: A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa, University of Budapest, Budapest, September 2009
- The Linguistic and the Cognitive Turn, University of Bern, October 2008
- Definite Descriptions, Presuppositions and Metalinguistic Negation, Workshop on Negation and Denial, University of Lisbon, July 2008
- On the Ethics of Memory, Heidelberg University, June 2008
- Epistemological and Moral Aspects of Holocaust Diaries, Hebrew University Jerusalem, October 2007
DPhil Thesis
Descriptive Names: A Contribution to the Semantics of Referring Expressions, Oxford University, 2006; supervised by Gordon Baker, Bede Rundle, John Hyman, Stephen G. Williams, Timothy Williamson
Last updated March 2023
- Friends have All Things in Common: Theories of Common Property in the European Tradition, forthcoming
- The Drama of Philosophy from Erasmus to Kant [in Romanian], Ratio & Revelatio, forthcoming
- Kant, God and Metaphysics, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2017, 462 pages, review1, review2, review3
- Frege, Continuum, London, 2012, review1, review2, review3, review4
- Dialogues with Norman Manea [in Romanian], Polirom, Iasi, 2010, translated into Italian 2017
- Wittgenstein and His Interpreters. Essays in Memory of G. P. Baker, Blackwell, Oxford, 2007, xiv + 352 pages, co-edited
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Reaktion Books, London, 2007, 223 pages; translated into Russian, Turkish, Chinese
- Analytic Philosophy [in German], Campus, Frankfurt & New York, 2004, 173 pages
Recent and forthcoming articles
- On the Use and Misuse of the Sciences in the Humanities, in D. Dumbrava et al. (eds.), In-cognita. Ioan Petru Culianu’s Approaches to Religion, Zetabooks, 2023
- Neuere Forschungen zu Freges Logik, in Philosophische Rundschau, forthcoming 2023
- Wittgenstein and Bede Rundle, forthcoming 2023
- The Desolation of our Time: Celan’s Struggle with Heidegger, in P. d’Oriano, Pietro & J. Rogove (eds.), Heidegger and his Anglo-American Reception, 2022, pp. 331-365
- Life’s Affirmation and Denial: Nietzsche and Christianity, in D. Came (ed.), Nietzsche Reader, Oxford University Press, 2022
- The Four Stages of Communism, Part 1, Part2
- Kants Auffassung der Mathematik als Ideal der Philosophie und das Bedeutungsproblem, Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, vol. 13, 2020, pp. 57-74
- What is in a Definition? Understanding Frege’s Account, Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, vol. 10, 2018, pp. 7-46
- Die Idee einer mathematischen Philosophie: Von Lullus bis zur funktionalen Semantik, Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, vol. 8, 2018, pp. 73-98
- Emil Cioran als Nihilist, Skeptiker und politischer Denker, Philosophische Rundschau, 64:4, 2017, pp. 349-374
- Involved Philosophy, Naturalism and the Human Predicament, in F. Ellis (ed.), New Models of Religious Understanding, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, pp. 59-78
- Reason’s Disunity With Itself: Adrian Moore on Kant’s Dialectic of Human Reason, Kantian Review, 21 (3), 2016, pp. 483-493
- Privacy and Private Language, in H.-J. Glock/J. Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley, Oxford/New York 2017, pp. 445-464
- Communism: The Shadows of a Utopia, Baltic Worlds, Vol VII:4, 2014, pp. 4-11
- Hegel's Tale in Romania, in L. Herzog (ed.), Hegel's Thought in Europe: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2013
- Bodies in Prolegomena §13: Noumena or Phenomena?, Hegel Bulletin, 34:2, 2013, pp. 181-202
- The Ideality of Space and Time: Trendelenburg versus Kant, Fischer and Bird, Kantian Review, 18:2, 2013, pp. 263-88; with a reply by Professor Graham Bird, Kantian Review, 18:2, 2013, pp. 289-300
- Philosophy as Poetry? Reflections on Wittgenstein’s Style, Wittgenstein Studien, 3:1, 2012, pp. 95-132
- Kripke’s Metalinguistic Apparatus and the Analysis of Definite Descriptions, Philosophical Studies, 156: 3, 2011, pp. 363-87 [Penultimate draft.pdf]
- Memory, Justice and the Court: On the Dimensions of Memory-Justice Under the Rome Statute, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 24: 3, 2011, pp. 425-47, co-authored with Christopher J. Piranio
- Frege’s Definition of Number: No Ontological Agenda?, Hungarian Philosophical Review, 54: 4, 2010, pp. 76-92
- On the Moral Dimension of the Investigation of Totalitarianism [in German], in Hammerstein et al. (eds.), Diktaturüberwindung in Europa, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2010, [Penultimate draft.pdf]
- Puzzles about Descriptive Names, Linguistics and Philosophy, 32: 4, 2009, pp. 409-428
- On Truth in Holocaust diaries [in German], Sinn und Form, 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 343-52
Shorter pieces (op-eds, reviews etc.)
- "There is a huge amount of injustice in who causes climate change and who will suffer most", interview with climate scientist Prof. Daniela Schmidt, Contributors.ro, December 2022
- Der Ukraine-Krieg stürzt Armenien ins Dilemma, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3.5.2022
- Armenien und seine historische Pein, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13.8.2021
- Klimaschutz und Kapitalismus, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14.7.2021
- Bernward Gesang, Mit kühlem Kopf. Über den Nutzen der Philosophie für die Klimadebatte, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21.6.2021
- Freiheit contra Verantwortung: Kein Ausweg aus dem Corona-Dilemma, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25.7.2020
- Klimawandel: Warum Thunberg richtig liegt und Ferguson falsch, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13.9.2019
- Oliver Thorndike, Kant's Transition Project and Late Philosophy, 73:1, 2019
- Martin Heidegger, Anmerkungen I-V (Schwarze Hefte 1942-1948), The Review of Metaphysics, 72:2, 2018
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers, 2021
- Persönliche Tragödien. In England ansässige Ausländer und der Brexit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7.12.2018
- “Both a 'political religion' and a 'religious state' are nothing more than monstrous structures, which defile both the idea of law and the idea of religion”, interview with Ruhi Demiray, Observator Cultural, September 2018
- Nationalism and Philosophy, interview by Jonathan Egid, 42 Magazine, March 2018
- Funktionalismus, Realismus, Humanismus [obituary on Hilary Putnam], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 15.3.2016
- Hitler, Atatürk and the German-Turkish relations, interview with Stefan Ihrig, Armenian Weekly, 30.10.2015 [Romanian translation here, Turkish here, Dutch here]
- Philosophy's Divide, Minerva podcast with Joshua Gottlieb on the relation between analytic and continental philosophy, August 2015
- Neue Forschungsliteratur über den Genozid an den Armeniern [Recent research on the Armenian genocide], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29.4.2015, reprinted in Armenian and Russian here
- Das namenlose Dorf [On the Armenian genocide], Tachles - Das jüdische Monatsmagazin, 24.4.2015, reprinted in Romanian here
- Den Willen und die Knochen brechen. Aufarbeitung des Kommunismus in Rumänien [On the prosecution of Communist crimes in Romania], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14.9.2014
- Interview with Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU) about the Gaza conflict, Observator Cultural, August 2014
- Frederick C. Beiser, Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13.6.2014
- The Heidegger Case - A Retrospective [in Romanian], Observator Cultural, nr. 461, 17-30 April 2014 (part 2 with a debate with Romanian anti-Semites)
- P. M. S. Hacker, Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (2007) and The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature (2013), Philosophical Quarterly, 64:257, October 2014
- Alexander Baumgarten, Metaphysics, The Review of Metaphysics, 67:4, June 2014
- Samuel Fleischacker, What Is Enlightenment?, European Journal of Philosophy, 22:S3, September 2014
- Tristesse und Widerstand: Anne Applebaums meisterhafte Studie über die Stalinisierung Osteuropas, review of Anne Applebaum, Der Eiserne Vorhang. Die Unterdrückung Osteuropas 1944–1956 [original: The Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956], Die Zeit, 30.1.2014
- Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Formen der Anschauung. Eine Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophical Investigations, 37:1, 2014
- Michael Franz, Tübinger Platonismus: Die gemeinsamen philosophischen Anfangsgründe von Hölderlin, Schelling und Hegel, Hegel Bulletin, 34:1, 2014, pp. 116-22
- Wissen, wo die Gräber liegen [Knowing where the victims of Communism are buried], in K. Kilzer/H. Müller-Enbergs (eds.), Geist hinter Gittern. Die rumänische Gedenkstätte Memorial Sighet, Berlin 2013, pp. 183-92
- How the Romanian Government Wants to 'Improve' the Constitution, verfassungsblog.de, 14.6.2013, co-authored with Cristina Arion (European Parliament) [German version]
- Conference report on workshop "Legality and Legitimacy: From Weimar 1932 to Bucharest 2012?", verfassungsblog.de, 13.5.2013 [Romanian version, more detailed version]
- Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, Warum Nationen scheitern, Glanz&Elend [review of Why Nations Fail], May 2013
- Daniel Robinson, How is Nature Possible: Kant's Project in the First Critique, The Review of Metaphysics, 66:3, March 2013 [read here]
- Das Gespenst des Autoritarismus [The Ghost of Authoritarianism] op-ed in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 17.6.2012
- Recenzie la o recenzie [on the memory and denial of the Holocaust in Romania and Germany], Observator Cultural, January 2011
- Wolfgang Ewen, Carl Stumpf und Gottlob Frege, Philosophical Investigations, 34:3, 2011
- Michael Lynch, Why Truth Matters, Philosophical Investigations, 30:4, 2007
- Brian McGuinness, Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers, Philosophical Investigations, 28:1, 2005
- Peter Hacker, Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 56:4, 2003
- Timothy McCarthy/Sean C. Stidd: Wittgenstein in America, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 55:4, 2002
- Casting Light on the Long Shadow of Romania's Securitate, Caietele Echinox, 1/2001, co-authored with Suzanne Travers
Some recent talks (selected recordings here)
- Medieval Communism, Humane Philosophy Society, University of Oxford, March 2023
- A Kantian Approach to the Climate Problem, Econ Initiative, CEC, Brussels
- Kant und das Klimaproblem, Workshop Kant und die Gegenwart, Bochum University, December 2022
- Heidegger and the Earth Myth, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Lincoln, May 2022
- Collectivism and a Life According to Nature – From the Ancients to the Moderns, and Back Again, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Lincoln, February 2020
- The Public and the Private Realm, workshop on Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, University of Kent, October 2019
- Cosmopolitanism and the Challenge of Climate Change”, Econ Initiative (discussion group of EU officials), Brussels, October 2019
- Zur Aktualität von Kants Vergleich der Philosophie mit der Mathematik in der Preisschrift von 1764, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Seminar zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, University of Münster, July 2019
- Cosmopolitanism – A Historical Overview, workshop Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global Challenges, Brussels School of International Studies, June 2019
- Reply to My Critics, Book Symposium on Kant, God and Metaphysics, The Oxford Forum
& The Stanford University Centre in Oxford, May 2019
- Gewissheit: Ein Grundproblem des Fallibilismus und Infallibilismus, Workshop "Fallibilismus und Gewissheit",
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Darmstadt, March 2018
- Ist alles ohne Sinn und Wert? Varianten des Nihilismus in der Philosophie, Philosophisches Kolloquium, Universität Wuppertal, January 2018
- Sovereignty in the Constitutional State, workshop "Sovereignty Revisited", Centre for Practical Reasoning, University of Kent, December 2017
- Kantian Elements in Kelsen’s Pure Theory and Political Theory, conference "Kant on Political Change", ECPR General Conference, Oslo, September 2017
- Public debate on Brexit, University of Kent, September 2017
- "Corriere dell'Est" (public discussion with Norman Manea on friendship, politics, philosophy), Circolo dei Lettori, Turin & Feltrinelli Duomo, Milan, September 2017
- Heidegger and Celan on the Devastation of this Age, conference "Celan and Heidegger - Fifty Years after Todtnauberg", Canterbury, June 2017
- Alles ist Nichts - Vom Wert des Nihilismus, Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft, Oldenburg, May 2017
- Aristotle on the Human Good - An Introduction to Policy Makers, Econ Initiative, Brussels, January 2017
- The Complexities of Ethnic Identity – Some Personal Remarks, conference “Ethnic and National identity in a Europe of Diasporas”, University of Bucharest, November 2016
- The Worst Form of Government? A Defense of Liberalism, round table discussion, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, October 2016
- The French Revolution and the Right to Rebellion: Kant’s Case, University of Kent, Paris, July 2016
- Die Idee einer mathematischen Philosophie: Von Descartes bis Frege, Institut für Philosophie, TU Darmstadt, May 2016
- Hermeneutics and the Ethics of Conflict Resolution, University of Keele, KOSAK Research Centre, March 2016
- Kant on Metaphysics and Religion. An Introduction for Policy Makers. Part II, Econ Initiative, Brussels, February 2016
- Nietzsche as a Christian, Philosophy Club, University of Hull, February 2016
- Life's Affirmation and Denial: Nietzsche and Christianity, The Centre for Philosophy and Religion, Heythrop College, London, January 2016
- Kant on Metaphysics and Religion. An Introduction for Policy Makers. Part I, Econ Initiative, Brussels, December 2015
- Empire, Revolution and Genocide: the Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire 1894-1916, summer school of the University of Kent, Paris, July 2015
- Das mathematische Paradigma in der Philosophie. Ein kritischer Rundgang durch die Philosophiegeschichte, Faculty of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, July 2015
- Heidegger and Celan on the Essence of Poetry, conference "La Reception Anglo-Américaine de la Pensée de Martin Heidegger", University of Chicago in Paris, January 2015
- The Roots of Communist Repression, conference "25 Years After the Revolution", Civic Academy Foundation & The Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Timişoara, Romania, December 2014 [interview with Radio Timisoara in German]
- Reason’s Division Against Itself: Comments on Adrian Moore on Kant’s Dialectic of Human Reason, Kant Festival, Keele University, November 2014
- Communism and Its Memory, Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, November 2014 [audio]
- Philosophie und Mathematik: Episoden einer problematischen Symbiose, Philosophisches Kolloquium, University of Leipzig, July 2014
- Kant's Fictions: The As-If Role of the Ideas of Reason, conference "Fictions", University of Bucharest, April 2014 [video]
- The Mathematical Paradigm in Philosophy: On Frege's Concept-Script, conference "Mind, Language, World: From Dilthey to Wittgenstein", Second Later German Philosophy Conference, University of Kent, September 2013 [audio]
- To What Extent Was Kant a Panentheist?, First Kant Leuven Conference, University of Leuven, May 2013
- 'A Symbol of Divine Omnipresence'? Theological Aspects of Kant's Conception of Space, Durham University, May 2013
- Space and God in Kant, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Hull, April 2013
- Weimar's Constitutional Weakness and Crisis, and Carl Schmitt's, Hans Kelsen's and Hermann Heller's Responses, workshop "Legality and Legitimacy: From Weimar 1932 to Bucharest 2012?", Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent, Brussels, April 2013 [audio1] [audio2]
- Hölderlin's Metaphysics, Aesthetics Research Group, School of Arts, University of Kent, November 2012 [Hölderlin's "Being, Judgment, Modality"] [audio]
- Trendelenburg vs. Kant on the Ideality of Space, conference After Kant: Beyond Transcendental Idealism, First Later German Philosophy Conference, University of Kent, September 2012 [audio]
- "The Darkness of the Poem is the Darkness of Death" - Celan and the Limits of Heidegger's Thinking about Poetry, German Department, University of Kent, May 2012 [audio]
- Judging and the Judgement-Stroke in Frege’s Logic, University of Kent, February 2012
- Frege on Definitions, Seventh European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, University of Milan, September 2011
- Bodies in Kant’s Prolegomena, UK Kant Society Annual Conference, University of St Andrews, September 2011
- On Expressing the Nightmare: Paul Celan and Norman Manea, Bard Graduate Center, New York, June 2011 [video]
- Culianu's Morphodynamics: Reflections on His Approach to the History of Religions, A Symposium In Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu, Jesus College, Oxford, May 2011 [audio]
- A Thinker’s Word to Come? Heidegger and Celan, Post-Kantian Seminar, University of Oxford, March 2011
- The Explanation of Thinking and Reasoning: from Kaplan to Frege, University of Kent, February 2011
- Paul Celan and Benjamin Fondane: A Dialogue with Norman Manea, Faculty of Letters, Bucharest University, November 2010
- The Unconditioned. God in Kant’s First Critique, Heythrop College, London, October 2010
- Pragmatics in Woodstock: A Linguistic Approach to Subversive Music, seminar "Art and Action in the 1960s", University of Oxford, Oriel College, June 2010
- The Concept of Victimhood, workshop "Victims: Figures of Violence, Embodiments of Trauma", University of Cambridge, June 2010
- Philosophy as Poetry? On Wittgenstein’s Style, Complutense University of Madrid, March 2010
- Reconsidering Frege’s Judgement Stroke, Central European University, Budapest, February 2010
- The Reference of Numerals in Frege, Logic, Language, Mathematics: A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa, University of Budapest, Budapest, September 2009
- The Linguistic and the Cognitive Turn, University of Bern, October 2008
- Definite Descriptions, Presuppositions and Metalinguistic Negation, Workshop on Negation and Denial, University of Lisbon, July 2008
- On the Ethics of Memory, Heidelberg University, June 2008
- Epistemological and Moral Aspects of Holocaust Diaries, Hebrew University Jerusalem, October 2007
DPhil Thesis
Descriptive Names: A Contribution to the Semantics of Referring Expressions, Oxford University, 2006; supervised by Gordon Baker, Bede Rundle, John Hyman, Stephen G. Williams, Timothy Williamson
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