---
_id: '58806'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'The present paper has two objectives. First, it explicates the story, initially
    portrayed by Eckart Förster, that philosophy allegedly started with publishing
    of Kant’s CPR and ended a quarter century later when Hegel’s Phenomenology of
    Mind appeared. We address the questions in what sense this happened and how is
    this development to be interpreted? Secondly, we demonstrate that similar radical
    transition from new, “true” beginning of philosophy to its apparent finishing
    took place in two other, high profile occasions in the history of Western philosophy,
    in two key points of its development: in the years 390-365 bc, between the early
    and the late Plato, and between 1898 and 1922, between Russell and Wittgenstein’s
    Tractatus. These three short-lived, spectacular transitions from philosophy’s
    alleged start to its alleged ultimate accomplishment give us good reason to speak
    about a specific 25-years principle in philosophy. In a peculiar way, this principle
    reveals philosophy’s true nature.'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Nikolay
  full_name: Milkov, Nikolay
  id: '357'
  last_name: Milkov
citation:
  ama: 'Milkov N. Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy between Intuitive Understanding
    and Discursive Reasoning. <i>Journal of Research in Philosophy and History</i>.
    2025;8(1):36-43. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36">10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36</a>'
  apa: 'Milkov, N. (2025). Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy between Intuitive
    Understanding and Discursive Reasoning. <i>Journal of Research in Philosophy and
    History</i>, <i>8</i>(1), 36–43. <a href="https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36">https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Milkov_2025, title={Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy
    between Intuitive Understanding and Discursive Reasoning}, volume={8}, DOI={<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36">10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36</a>}, number={1},
    journal={Journal of Research in Philosophy and History}, publisher={SCHOLINK INC.},
    author={Milkov, Nikolay}, year={2025}, pages={36–43} }'
  chicago: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy between
    Intuitive Understanding and Discursive Reasoning.” <i>Journal of Research in Philosophy
    and History</i> 8, no. 1 (2025): 36–43. <a href="https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36">https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36</a>.'
  ieee: 'N. Milkov, “Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy between Intuitive
    Understanding and Discursive Reasoning,” <i>Journal of Research in Philosophy
    and History</i>, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 36–43, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36">10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36</a>.'
  mla: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy between Intuitive
    Understanding and Discursive Reasoning.” <i>Journal of Research in Philosophy
    and History</i>, vol. 8, no. 1, SCHOLINK INC., 2025, pp. 36–43, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36">10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36</a>.'
  short: N. Milkov, Journal of Research in Philosophy and History 8 (2025) 36–43.
conference:
  end_date: 2024-08-08
  location: Rome, Italy
  name: 25th World Congress of Philosophy
  start_date: 2024-08-02
date_created: 2025-02-24T10:24:15Z
date_updated: 2025-02-24T10:24:30Z
department:
- _id: '14'
doi: 10.22158/jrph.v8n1p36
intvolume: '         8'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Aristotle
- Hegel
- Kant
- Plato
- Russell
- Wittgenstein
language:
- iso: eng
page: 36-43
publication: Journal of Research in Philosophy and History
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 2576-2435
  issn:
  - 2576-2451
publication_status: published
publisher: SCHOLINK INC.
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Philosophy’s 25-Years Principle: Philosophy between Intuitive Understanding
  and Discursive Reasoning'
type: journal_article
user_id: '357'
volume: 8
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '58822'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'In 1921, John Wisdom (1904–1993) became a member of Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge,
    where he read philosophy and attended lectures by G. E. Moore, C. D. Broad, and
    J. E. McTaggart. He received his BA in 1924, after which he worked for five years
    at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. From 1929 to 1934, Wisdom
    was a Lecturer in the department of logic and metaphysics at the University of
    St Andrews and a colleague of G. F. Stout. After the publication of his book Interpretation
    and Analysis (1931) and five articles on “Logical Constructions” in Mind (1931–3),
    Wisdom became a Lecturer in Moral Sciences in Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity
    College. This gave him the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of Wittgenstein’s
    philosophy. Since nothing by Wittgenstein but Tractatus appeared in print for
    decades, Wisdom’s publications of these years were—mistakenly—read as portents
    of the new ideas of Wittgenstein himself. The publication of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical
    Investigations in 1953 brought with it, among other things, the fall of Wisdom’s
    popularity. '
author:
- first_name: Nikolay
  full_name: Milkov, Nikolay
  id: '357'
  last_name: Milkov
citation:
  ama: 'Milkov N. Wisdom’s Wittgenstein. In: Khani  AH, Kemp  G, eds. <i>Wittgenstein
    and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic
    Philosophers, 2 Vol., Volume II</i>. 1st ed. Routledge.'
  apa: 'Milkov, N. (n.d.). Wisdom’s Wittgenstein. In A. H. Khani  &#38; G. Kemp  (Eds.),
    <i>Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary
    Analytic Philosophers, 2 vol., Volume II</i> (1st ed.). Routledge.'
  bibtex: '@inbook{Milkov, place={London}, edition={1}, title={Wisdom’s Wittgenstein},
    booktitle={Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and
    Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, 2 vol., Volume II}, publisher={Routledge},
    author={Milkov, Nikolay}, editor={Khani , Ali Hossein  and Kemp , Gary } }'
  chicago: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Wisdom’s Wittgenstein.” In <i>Wittgenstein and Other
    Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers,
    2 Vol., Volume II</i>, edited by Ali Hossein  Khani  and Gary  Kemp , 1st ed.
    London: Routledge, n.d.'
  ieee: 'N. Milkov, “Wisdom’s Wittgenstein,” in <i>Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers:
    His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, 2 vol., Volume
    II</i>, 1st ed., A. H. Khani  and G. Kemp , Eds. London: Routledge.'
  mla: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Wisdom’s Wittgenstein.” <i>Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers:
    His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, 2 Vol., Volume
    II</i>, edited by Ali Hossein  Khani  and Gary  Kemp , 1st ed., Routledge.'
  short: 'N. Milkov, in: A.H. Khani , G. Kemp  (Eds.), Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers:
    His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, 2 Vol., Volume
    II, 1st ed., Routledge, London, n.d.'
date_created: 2025-02-24T18:33:50Z
date_updated: 2025-02-24T18:38:38Z
department:
- _id: '14'
edition: '1'
editor:
- first_name: 'Ali Hossein '
  full_name: 'Khani , Ali Hossein '
  last_name: 'Khani '
- first_name: 'Gary '
  full_name: 'Kemp , Gary '
  last_name: 'Kemp '
keyword:
- elucidation
- facts
- Frege
- language
- metaphysics
- G. E. Moore
- Russell
- Stebbing
- John Wisdom
- Wittgenstein
language:
- iso: eng
place: London
publication: 'Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and
  Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, 2 vol., Volume II'
publication_status: inpress
publisher: Routledge
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Wisdom's Wittgenstein
type: book_chapter
user_id: '357'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '58821'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Susan Stebbing wrote only once on Wittgenstein, in her paper ‘Logical Positivism
    and Analysis’ (1933). The paper was unusually critical of Wittgenstein. It put
    the Cambridge analytic philosophy of Moore and Russell in a sharp opposition to
    the positivist philosophy of the Vienna Circle, in which Stebbing included Wittgenstein.
    Whereas the positivists were interested in analysing language, the Cambridge realists
    were analysing facts. To be more explicit, the analytic philosophers were engaged
    in directional analysis, which seeks to illuminate (to elucidate) the multiplicity
    of the analysed facts. In contrast, positivists aimed at a final analysis that
    proves that there are simples. Stebbing’s sympathies were clearly on the side
    of the Cambridge realists. The important implication of Stebbing’s paper was that
    it urged Wittgenstein to change the style of his philosophy, abandoning those
    points which allegedly connected him with the Vienna Circle.
author:
- first_name: Nikolay
  full_name: Milkov, Nikolay
  id: '357'
  last_name: Milkov
citation:
  ama: 'Milkov N. Stebbing’s Wittgenstein. In: Khani  AH, Kemp  G, eds. <i>Wittgenstein
    and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic
    Philosophers, Vol. II</i>. 1st ed. Routledge.'
  apa: 'Milkov, N. (n.d.). Stebbing’s Wittgenstein. In A. H. Khani  &#38; G. Kemp  (Eds.),
    <i>Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary
    Analytic Philosophers, vol. II</i> (1st ed.). Routledge.'
  bibtex: '@inbook{Milkov, place={London}, edition={1}, title={Stebbing’s Wittgenstein},
    booktitle={Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and
    Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, vol. II}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Milkov,
    Nikolay}, editor={Khani , Ali Hossein  and Kemp , Gary } }'
  chicago: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Stebbing’s Wittgenstein.” In <i>Wittgenstein and Other
    Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers,
    Vol. II</i>, edited by Ali Hossein  Khani  and Gary  Kemp , 1st ed. London: Routledge,
    n.d.'
  ieee: 'N. Milkov, “Stebbing’s Wittgenstein,” in <i>Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers:
    His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, vol. II</i>,
    1st ed., A. H. Khani  and G. Kemp , Eds. London: Routledge.'
  mla: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Stebbing’s Wittgenstein.” <i>Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers:
    His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, Vol. II</i>,
    edited by Ali Hossein  Khani  and Gary  Kemp , 1st ed., Routledge.'
  short: 'N. Milkov, in: A.H. Khani , G. Kemp  (Eds.), Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers:
    His Influence on Historical and Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, Vol. II, 1st
    ed., Routledge, London, n.d.'
date_created: 2025-02-24T18:29:59Z
date_updated: 2025-02-24T18:30:06Z
ddc:
- '100'
department:
- _id: '14'
edition: '1'
editor:
- first_name: 'Ali Hossein '
  full_name: 'Khani , Ali Hossein '
  last_name: 'Khani '
- first_name: 'Gary '
  full_name: 'Kemp , Gary '
  last_name: 'Kemp '
keyword:
- directional analysis
- elucidation
- facts
- metaphysics
- G. E. Moore
- Russell
- Stebbing
- John Wisdom
- Wittgenstein
language:
- iso: eng
place: London
publication: 'Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers: His Influence on Historical and
  Contemporary Analytic Philosophers, vol. II'
publication_status: inpress
publisher: Routledge
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Stebbing's Wittgenstein
type: book_chapter
user_id: '357'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '55236'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'From 1901 to 1919, Russell persistently maintained that there were two kinds
    of logic and distinguished between one and the other as mathematical logic and
    philosophical logic. In this paper, we discuss the concept of philosophical logic,
    as used by Russell. This was only a tentative program that Russell did not clarify
    in detail; therefore, our task will be to make it explicit. We shall show that
    there are three (-and-a-half) kinds of Russellian philosophical logic: (i) “pure
    logic”; (ii) philosophical logic investigating the logical forms of propositions;
    (iii) philosophical logic exploring the logical forms of facts: in epistemology
    and in the external world. In particular, Russell’s program or philosophical logic
    of the facts of the external world remained less than sketchily outlined.  '
author:
- first_name: Nikolay
  full_name: Milkov, Nikolay
  id: '357'
  last_name: Milkov
citation:
  ama: Milkov N. Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and its Logical Forms. <i>Athens
    Journal of Philosophy</i>. 2023;2(3):193-209. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3">10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3</a>
  apa: Milkov, N. (2023). Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and its Logical Forms.
    <i>Athens Journal of Philosophy</i>, <i>2</i>(3), 193–209. <a href="https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3">https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Milkov_2023, title={Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and
    its Logical Forms}, volume={2}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3">10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3</a>},
    number={3}, journal={Athens Journal of Philosophy}, author={Milkov, Nikolay},
    year={2023}, pages={193–209} }'
  chicago: 'Milkov, Nikolay. “Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and Its Logical
    Forms.” <i>Athens Journal of Philosophy</i> 2, no. 3 (2023): 193–209. <a href="https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3">https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3</a>.'
  ieee: 'N. Milkov, “Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and its Logical Forms,”
    <i>Athens Journal of Philosophy</i>, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 193–209, 2023, doi: <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3">10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3</a>.'
  mla: Milkov, Nikolay. “Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and Its Logical Forms.”
    <i>Athens Journal of Philosophy</i>, vol. 2, no. 3, 2023, pp. 193–209, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3">10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3</a>.
  short: N. Milkov, Athens Journal of Philosophy 2 (2023) 193–209.
date_created: 2024-07-14T16:27:50Z
date_updated: 2025-02-24T18:47:46Z
department:
- _id: '520'
- _id: '813'
doi: 10.30958/ajphil.2-3-3
intvolume: '         2'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Russell
- mathematical logic
- philosophical logic
- Wittgenstein
language:
- iso: eng
page: 193-209
publication: Athens Journal of Philosophy
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic and its Logical Forms
type: journal_article
user_id: '357'
volume: 2
year: '2023'
...
