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apl. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Milkov

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apl. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Milkov

Institut für Humanwissenschaften > Philosophie > Wissenschaftstheorie und Philosophie der Technik

Supernumerary Professor

Phone:
+49 5251 60-2817
Fax:
+49 5251 60-3744
Office:
N2.316
Office hours:

Do, 16.00 - 16.30 Uhr.

 

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Visitor:
Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn
Conferences
  1. “Bertrand Russell and the Emergence of the Concept of Truth-making”. “Russell 150” Conference at the University of Bucharest, Romania, November 4–5, 2022.

  2. "Susan Stebbing and Some Uncharted Sides of Analytic Philosophy", 5th TiLPS of History of Analytic Philosophy Workshop, August 24, 2022, Tilburg, Niederlands. 

  3. "Susan Stebbing and Some Poorly Explored Venues of Analytic Philosophy", Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy Annual Conference, July 7, 2022, Shanxi University, Chna.

  4. "Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Logic and Its Logical Forms", Conference "Philosophical Toots of Mathematical Logic", University of Turin, Italy, April 4, 2022.

  5. “Making Sense of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”, “The Philosophy of Wittgenstein” panel, 3rd International Conference “Philosophy Nowadays: Traditions, Innovations, Education”, Varna, September 11, 2021.

  6. "Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Logic and Its Logical Forms", XXV. Congress of the German Society for Philosophy, September 5th – 9th, 2021, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

  7. "Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Logic and Its Logical Forms", Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy Annual Conference, University of  Vienna, July 14–16, 2021.

  8. “Brave New World: The Political Turn of 2014–2016, its Causes and its Prospective,” International Conference “Transformations and Challenges in the Global World,” Southwest University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, October 15–17, 2020.

  9. “Russell’s Philosophical Logic and Its Logical Forms”, Workshop: Geschichte und Philosophie von Logik und Mathematik, Paderborn, February 17–18, 2020.

  10. "The Composition of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: Interpretative Survey", Workshop "130 Years Ludwig Wittgenstein", University of Sofia, October 16-17, 2019.
  11. “Towards an Analytic Scientific Metaphysics—on the Example of Philosophy of Cosmology”, 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, 5–10 August, 2019.
  12. “From Kant’s Encyclopaedic Approach in Philosophy to Hegel’s Philosophical Encyclopaedia”, The 13th International Kant Congress: The Court of Reason, Oslo, 6–9 August, 2019.
  13. “The Concept of Truth-Making and Russell’s 1918 Lectures on Logical Atomism”, Bertrand Russell Society Annual Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 20–22, 2019.
  14. “The Composition of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the Tractarian Wars”, Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Boston, Massachusetts, June 17–19, 2019.
  15. “Bertrand Russell’s Conception of Proposition in Relation to Pragmatism”, 14th Annual International Conference on Philosophy, 27–30 May 2019, Athens, Greece.
  16. “Bertrand Russell’s 1918 Lectures and the Emergence of the Concept of Truth-Making”, “Bertrand Russell’s The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, 1918–1919” Workshop, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, January 28–9, 2019.
  17. “Wittgenstein’s Notebooks and the Composition of the Tractatus”, 24th World Congress of Philosophy, Peking, VR China, August 13–20, 2018. 
  18. “Wittgenstein’s Notebooks, the Composition of the Tractatus, and the ‘Tractarian Wars’ ”, 2018 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Oxford, UK, July 6–8.
  19. “Two Concepts of Analytic Philosophy”, second annual TiLPS History of Analytic Philosophy workshop, University of Tilburg, Nederland, July 3–4, 2018.
  20. “Stereology”, 6th World Congress on Universal Logic, June 21–26, 2018, Vichy, France.
  21. “Hegel’s dialectics and the method of the early analytic philosophy”, 32d International Hegel Congress, June 6–7, 2018, University of Tampere, Finland.
  22. “Concept Formation in Science: Heinrich Rickert and the Logical Empiricists”, Joint Session of “The North American Neo-Kantian Society” and “The Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy”, in connection with the 115th Meeting of the Central Division of the Americal Philosophical Association in Chicago, February 22, 2018.
  23. “Hermann Lotze’s Microcosm”, PHILO-SOPHIA. 125 Years University Philosophy in Bulgaria, Sofia, October 25–28, 2017.
  24. “David Hilbert and the Berlin Group”, Hilbert’s axiomatic method in Central and Eastern Europe, October 3. 2017, in connection with the 4th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, 4-7 October 2017 Brno (Czech Republic)
  25. "What is Analytic Philosophy?", Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg „Der Neue Realismus / New Realism“, Sofia, 27.05.2017.
  26. "Hermann Lotze und Franz Brentano", Konferenz "Denken im Zwiespalt – Zum 200. Geburtstag des Philosophen Rudolph Hermann Lotze", Bautzen, 20.05.2017.
  27. "The Method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: Towards a New Interpretation", The 6th Annual Conference, The Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy, 9.05.2017, Calgary, Alberta.
  28. “Aesthetic Gestures: Essay in Frege–Wittgenstein Theory of Art​”, 39. International Wittgenstein Symposium 2016, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 7.–13. August 2016.
  29. “Theories of Concept Formation: Heinrich Rickert and the Logical Empiricists”, 8th Quadernial8th Quadrennial Fellows of Pittsburgh’s Center of Philosophy of Science, Conference, University of Lund, Sweden, 11–13, 2016.
  30. “The 1900-Turn in Russell’s Logic and the Emergence of His Paradox”, 12th International Conference on Contemporary Logic”, University of Sankt Petersburg, Russia, 22–24.06.2016.
  31. “Wittgenstein’s Ways”, 5th International Workshop on Topological Philosophy, Warsaw, Poland, February 8–9, 2016. 
  32. “Theories of Concept Formation: Heinrich Rickert and the Logical Empiricists”, Neo-Kantian Perspectives on the Exact Sciences, 22–24, 2016, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany.
  33. “Aesthetic Gestures: Essay in Frege–Wittgenstein Theory of Art​”, open session of the 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, Warwick University (England), 10–12 July 2015.
  34. “On John Wisdom”, Fourth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, 4th–6th June 2015, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland).
  35. “Russell and Husserl: The Odd Couple”, Bertrand Russell Society Meeting for 2015, 5th–7th June 2015, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland).
  36. “Kant’s Encyclopedic Turn”, British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of York (England), 9–11 April 2015.
  37. Commentary on Prof. Stephen Read’s paper: “Inferentialism and the Logic of Identity”, Workshop “Philosophy of Logic. New Tasks and Perspectives”, November 14, 2014, University of Paderborn.
  38. “The 1900 Turn in Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy of Mathematics and the Emergence of his Paradox”, 8. Rheinisch-Westfälisches Seminar zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik”, Universität Paderborn, Juli 11, 2014.
  39. “On Walter Dubislav”, International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Conference, Ghent, Belgium, July 3, 2014.
  40. “Frege and the Philosophy of German Idealism”, Gottlob Frege International Conference, Wismar, May 12, 2013.
  41. “The Construction of the Logical World”, First Annual Conference of the Society for Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, McMaster University, Canada, May 24–26, 2012.
  42. “The Method of the Tractatus”, Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society, Brighton, England, 10. July 2011.
  43. “Wittgenstein’s Method: The Third Phase of Its development (1933–1936)”, Wittgenstein’s Early Investigations, Lisbon, Portugal, 27 June, 2011.
  44. “The Construction of Logical Worlds: Fixing the Boundaries of Human Thought”, Crossing Borders: 9. Kongreß der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Wien, 2–4. Juni 2011.
  45. “A Logical–Contextual History of Philosophy”, 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, November 12–14, 2010, Memphis, Tennessee. Comment: Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
  46. “Bertrand Russell’s Philosophical Logic”, International Workshop Formal System and Their Interpretations, Paderborn, October 15, 2010.
  47. “The Cement of Social Alchemy”, Conference on Collective Intentionality VII. Perspectives on Social Ontology, University of Basel, Switzerland, August 26, 2010.
  48. “Remarks on Hans Reichenbach’s Conception of Probability”, European Science Foundation—The Philosophy of Science in European Perspective, Team E 2010. Workshop Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and Statistics, University of Paderborn, July 9, 2010. http://www.pse-esf.org/FinalReport3123.pdf      
  49. “Russell’s Debt to Peano and His Logic”, International Workshop Recent Studies in the History and Philosophy of Logic, University of Paderborn, June 25, 2010.
  50. “Kant’s Transcendental Turn as a Second Step in the Logicalization of Philosophy”, in: Proceedings of the XIth International Kant Congress, Pisa (Italy), May 26, 2010.
  51. “Heinrich Rickert and the Logical Empiricists”, Phänomenologie, Konstruktivismus und Analytische Philosophie, Wissenschaftliches Becker-Kolloquium der Fernuniversität Hagen, 4. Februar, 2010, Europäische Akademie, Bad Neuenahr/Ahrweiler, Germany.
  52. “Russell, Wittgenstein, and the Project for ‘Analytic Philosophy’ ”, Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, New York (NY), December 28, 2009. Commented by Dr. Nathan Berber, University of Haifa (Israel)
  53. “Commentary on: Nathan Berber, ‘A Tractarian Formal Ontology of Concepts’ ”, Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, New York (NY), December 28, 2009.
  54. “Frege’s Logical Voluntarism”, International Workshop Form and Content in the History of Modern Logic, November 13, 2009, University of Paderborn.
  55. “Husserl und Russell, 1911–1913”, Internationale Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung, Phänomenologie im Wettstreit der Methoden, Würzburg, October 1, 2009.
  56. “Cambridge Phenomenology”, German–Finnish Workshop “Themes in Early Analytic Philosophy and History of Logic”, Tampere (Finland), September 21, 2009.
  57. “Carl Hempel—Whose Philosopher?”, International Conference “Die Berliner Grupe: Erkenntnis, Wahrscheinlichkeit, Interdisziplinarität”, Universität Paderborn, September 5, 2009.
  58. “Russell, Wittgenstein, and the Project for ‘Analytic Philosophy’ ”, The 130th Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society (contributed paper), University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, July 11–12, 2009.
  59. “Towards a Reistic Social Ontology”, International Conference “The Stakes of Contemporary Ontological Thinking”, Sofia, June 18–20, 2009.
  60. “Lotze Influence of Russell”, German–Finnish Workshop “Perspectives on the Early History of Analytic and Phenomenological Philosophy”, University of Paderborn, March 30, 2009.
  61. “Cambridge Phänomenologie”, Phänomenologie, Konstruktivismus und Analytische Philosophie, Wissenschaftliches (Becker-)Kolloquium der Fernuniversität Hagen, February 6, 2009, Europäische Akademie, Bad Neuenahr/Ahrweiler, Germany.
  62. “Bertrand Russell’s Religious Humanism,” Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia (PA), December 29, 2008. Commented by Timothy Madigan (St. John Fisher College)
  63. “The Joint Philosophical Project of Russell and Wittgenstein (1912)”, German–Finnish Workshop “Positions in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology”, University of Paderborn, October 9, 2008.
  64. “Stücke einer reistischen Gesellschafts- Geschichtstheorie”, XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen; September 18, 2008.
  65. “Reichenbach’s Concept of Logical Analysis of Science and his Lost Battle against Kant”, 31th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria; August 15, 2008.
  66. “Reichenbach’s Method of Analysis of Science”, Sixth Quadrennial Fellows Conference 2008 [organized by the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh], Ohio State University at Athens (OH), July 23, 2008.
  67. “The Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle: Affinities and Divergences”, 7th Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Vancouver, University of British Columbia, June 20, 2008.
  68. “Russell, Wittgenstein, and the Project for ‘Analytic Philosophy’,” 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August 6–12, 2007.
  69. “Die Berliner Gruppe und der Wiener Kreis: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede,” 8th Congress of the Austrian Society of Philosophy, University of Graz, Austria, June 8, 2007.
  70. “Leibniz’s Concept of characteristica universalis,” 8th International Leibniz Congress, University of Hannover, Germany, July 26, 2006.
  71. “Karl Popper’s Debt to Leonard Nelson,” 6th Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Paris, école normale superieure, June 18, 2006.
  72. “The Joint Philosophical Project of Russell and Wittgenstein: April–November 1912,” Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 27, 2006.
  73. “Hermann Lotze’s Influence on Bertrand Russell,” Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, New York, December 28, 2005. Commented by Prof. David Sullivan (Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado)
  74. “The Fitting Theory of Truth,” 4th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal, August 29, 2005.
  75. “Bertrand Russell Early Philosophy of Time (1899–1913),” 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August 8–14, 2005.
  76. “The Formal Theory of Everything,” Phenomenology Worldwide at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, 3d World Congress of Phenomenology, Wadham College, University of Oxford (UK), August 15–21, 2004.
  77. “Hermann Lotze’s Microcosm,” Ibidem. 
  78. “Husserl and Russell: 1911–1913”, 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirch­berg/Wechsel, Austria, August 8–14, 2004.
  79. “Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology: Common Sources, Related Results”, 23d Varna International Philosophical School, June 3–6, 2004, Varna, Bulgaria.
  80. “The Historical Achievement of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,” 9th International Kant- Conference: Kant between West and East, Kaliningrad (Königsberg), April 22–24, 2004.
  81. “The Meaning of Life: A Topological Approach,” 53d International Pheno­­meno­logy
    Congress, Phenomenology of Life: Meeting the Challenges of the Present Day World, Istanbul, Turkey, August 10–17, 2003.
  82. “What is Analytic Philosophy,” 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 10–17, 2003. www.wcp2003.org/contemporary/Nikolay_Milkov.doc
  83. “The ‘Method’ of the Tractatus,” 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirch­berg/ Wechsel, Austria, August 4–10, 2003. sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/1664/1/milkow.pdf
  84. “Pure Forms in Biology,” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Meeting 2003, Vienna, Austria, July 16–20, 2003.
  85. “The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein (March–November 1912) and Its Downfall”, 25th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August 11–17, 2002. sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/1434/Milkov.pdf
  86. “Stereology,” 6th World Multiconference of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: SCI 2002/ISAS 2002, July 14–18, 2002, Orlando, Florida.
  87. “The History of the Conception of Truth-making,” 4th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Lund, Sweden, June 14–17, 2002.
  88. “History of Analytic Philosophy: Helping to Bring an Unfinished Project to its Conclusion”, British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference, Oxford, St. Anne’s College, March 22–24, 2002.
  89. “Ist Wittgensteins Tractatus in irgendwelchem Sinne mystisch?”, Symposium zum 50. Todestag von L. Wittgenstein, am 15.–16. November 2001, Haus Wittgenstein, Parkgasse 18, Wien, Österreich.
  90. “Susan Stebbing’s Criticism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus,” International Symposium The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism, University of Vienna, July 12–14, 2001.
  91. “Russell’s Turn of August-1900 and His Paradox,” Munich, June 2–5, 2001, One Hundred Years of Russell’s Paradox, International Conference in Logic and Philosophy.
  92. “Mesocosmological Descriptions: Towards an Extensionalist Ontology of History,” Session of the Society for the Philosophy of History, held with the APA 99th Central Division Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3–5, 2001.
  93. “Logico-linguistic Moleculism: Towards an Ontology of Collocations,” Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases, OntoLex’2000, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 8–10, 2000.
  94. “The Geometrical Method in Analysing Practical Reasoning,” 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August 13–19, 2000.
  95. “Russell’s Theory of Propositions (1905–19) in Relation to Pragmatism,” International Conference Pragmatism & Semantics, Villa Lanna, Prague, The Czech Republic, June 20–23, 2000.
  96. “Tractarian Topology: A New Interpretation of the Objects in Witt­gen­stein’s Trac­tatus,” 22d International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August 16–21, 1999.
  97. “The Latest Frege,” 3rd International Conference held by the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP), Munich, Germany, September 15–18, 1997.
  98. “Neither Verifiers not Verificators: The Refutation of ‘Truth-Making’,” 20th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August 10–16, 1997.
  99. “The Origins and Structure of Russell’s Paradox,” 11th International Symposium, Logica’97, Liblice Castle, The Czech Republic, June 17–20, 1997.
  100. “Black Sea Athena,” 2nd International Conference Civil Society in South-Eastern Europe, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, April 25–27, 1997.
  101. “Sexual Experience,” The December Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, hold in conjunction with the Eastern Division meeting of APA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 27–30, 1996.
  102. “Russell’s Fregean Turn,” 2nd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Leeds, England, September 5–7, 1996.
  103. “The Cement of Social Alchemy: A Philosophical Analysis of Mind Groups Identity,” 19th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirch­berg/Wechsel, Austria, August 11–18, 1996.
  104. “What is Analytical Phenomenology?,” 1st International Congress in Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Science of Life, April 18–20, Macerata, Italy, 1996.
  105. “Elements of a Wittgensteinian Theory of Aesthetic Objects,” 18th International Witt­gen­stein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, 13–20 August, 1995.
  106. “Was Wittgenstein a Philosopher of Language?,” 1st International Conference held by the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP), Saarbrücken, Germany, October 10–14, 1991.
  107. “Scheinbegriffe Übersetzen,” AvHumboldt-Foundation Symposium, Geistes­wissen­­schaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationale Kultur­aus­tausch, Sont­hofen im Allgäu, Germany, Oktober 7–11, 1991.
  108. “Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy,” Round-Table Meeting in Honour of Wittgenstein’s Centenary at Wittgenstein-House, Vienna, April 26, 1989.
  109. “Philosophy of Language without Meaning and without . . . Language,” International Symposium Models of Meaning, Varna, Bulgaria, September 25–28, 1988.
  110. “The Regress ad infinitum Argument and the True Method in Philosophy,” 18th World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, England, August, 1988.
  111. “The Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Science: Attempt at Reconstruction,” 8th International Congress in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Moscow, Russia, August 16–20, 1987.
  112. “Russellstein’s annus mirabilis: 1913,” 12th International Wittgenstein Symposi­um, Kirch­berg/ Wechsel, Austria, August 7–14, 1987.
  113. “Philosophy of History without Entities: Against the Subjectivism in History,” 5th Meeting of the European Society for the History of the Behavioural and Social Sciences, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 1986.
  114. “On the Reconstruction of Early Wittgenstein’s Philosophy,” 10th International Witt­genstein Symposium, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, August, 1985.

 

 

 

Invited Lectures (Selection)

 

  1. "Die Einheit von Wittgensteins Philosophie", Paderborner Kolloquium zur Philosophie, 21.01.2021.
  2. “Towards a New Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus” Institute for Exploration of the Societies and Knowledge”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, May 30, 2017.
  3. “Kant’s Encyclopedic Turn”, Institute for Exploration of the Societies and Knowledge”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, October 15, 2014.
  4. “Was ist eine sexuelle Handlung? Philosophische Bemerkungen”, Öffentlicher Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops “Philosophie und Sexualität”, Universität Paderborn, June 13, 2014.
  5. “The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein and Its Demise,”, McMaster Department of Philosophy, Visiting Speaker Series, March 30, 2012.
  6. “The Two Turns of Bertrand Russell’s Logic”, Buffalo Logic Colloquium, March 7th, 2012.
  7. “The Berlin Group”, Lunchtime Colloquium, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, November 16, 2010.
  8. “Die Berliner Gruppe und der Wiener Kreis: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede”, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 19. November 2009.
  9. “Elemente einer reistischen Gesellschaftstheorie”, Habilitatiosvortrag, Universität Paderborn, 9. Juli 2009.
  10. “Hermann Lotzes philosophische Anthropologie”, Universität Paderborn, 22. Januar 2009.
  11. “Wittgenstein: Twenty Years Later”, Key Address. Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Conference on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary from the [Milkov’s] First Translation of Wittgenstein’s Works [T, PI, RFM] into Bulgarian, Department of Philosophy, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, October 4, 2008.
  12. “Leonard Nelson und der ‘bulgarischen Standpunkt’,” Wittgenstein-Haus, Vienna, Austria,June 5, 2007.
  13. “The Idiosyncrasy of Bulgarian Philosophy,” Institute for Philosophical Investigations, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, July 18, 2006.
  14. “The Joint Philosophical Project of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein: April–November 1912,” Lunchtime Colloquium, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, April 14, 2006.
  15. “Hermann Lotze’s Influence on Bertrand Russell,” Lunchtime Colloquium, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, October 18, 2005.
  16. “Der Sinn des Lebens,” Ringvorlesung, Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, February 13, 2002.
  17. “Leo Tolstois Philosophie des Lebens,” Kant-Gesellschaft, Herford, Germany, January 28, 2000.
  18. “Tolstoi und Wittgenstein: ihre Philosophie im Vergleich,” Kant-Gesellschaft, Herford Germany, February 25, 2000. Review: Helmut Schlüter, “Das wahre Leben liegt außerhalb der Zeit,” Neue Westfälische, 28. Februar 2000, p. HE 12.
  19. “Varieties of Understanding,” Philosophische Klub, Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, January 1993.
  20. “How Epiphenommenal Mind is Possible?,” Philosophische Klub, Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, April 1990.
  21. “Recent Studies on Wittgenstein,” Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Moscow, October 1985.
  22. “J. L. Austin’s Philosophical Development,” Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, April 1984.
  23. “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, Lexis Circle, University of Moscow, Russia, May 1983.
Profile

 

Area of Specialization

History of Analytic Philosophy, History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

 

Area of Competence

History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century, Ethics, Political Theory, Aesthetics, General Philosophy of Science, Epistemology

 

Personal

Married with four children; German and Bulgarian citizen

 

Education

 

Dr. habil. (doctor habilitatus) in Philosophy (Habilitation), University Paderborn, Germany

 

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Lomonossov University of Moscow (Chair History of Foreign Philosophy), Russia  

 

M.A. in Philosophy,  University of Sofia, Bulgaria

 

Theses

MA:    “On Bertrand Russell’s Logic and Plato’s Dialectic” (in Bulgarian).

           

PhD:    “A Critical Analysis of the Philosophy of Logical Atomism” (in Russian).

 

Dr. habil.: “Analytic Philosophy in Context” (in English).

Service to the Profession

Appointed Referee of:

 

  1. Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society
  2. Oxford University Press (review of book proposal)
  3. History and Philosophy of Logic (more then 10 times)
  4. Cambridge University Press (review of book proposal)
  5. Journal for General Philosophy of Science
  6. European Journal of Philosophy
  7. Balkan Journal of Philosophy (multiple)
  8. Diametros (bis)
  9. National Science Centre, Poland (review of project) (bis) 
  10. History of Philosophy Quarterly (bis)
  11. Nordic Wittgenstein Review
  12. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (bis)
  13. Axiomathes
  14. Journal of the History of Ideas
  15. Philosophical Alterntives
  16. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
  17. Journal of Transcendental Philosophy (bis)
  18. Synthese (bis)
  19. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
  20. The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
  21. Palgrave Macmillan (review of book proposal) (bis)
  22. Bloomsbury Academic (review of book proposal) (multiple)
  23. Philosopher’s Imprint
  24. Logique et Analyse
  25. Mind
  26. The History of the Behavioral Sciences
  27. Theoretical Biology
  28. Athens Journal of  Philosophy

 

Member of Editorial Board:

 

 

Founding Member

 

  • The Club “Bulgarian Academy of Sciences—Scientific Diaspora”

 

Organized Conferences:

 

  • “Die Berliner Gruppe: Axiomatik, Erkenntnis, Interdisziplinarität”, Universität Paderborn, September 3–5, 2009. (Conference supported by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation.)
  • Rudolph Hermann Lotze: Eine Neubewertung“, Die Tagung wird vom 4. bis 6. September 2023 an der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Fach Philosophie der Universität Paderborn ausgetragen. (Conference supported by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation.)
Supervisor / Gutachter

Bachelor of Arts Students

Jennifer Gohlke

Lilli Isabel Förster

Alexander Marzeion

Lea Knop

Friederike-Marie Ruchholz

 

Doctoral Students

Michele Vagnetti (University of Paderborn / University of Florence)

Lilli Isabel Förster (Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart), second reader

 

Examiner

  • Bachelor Thesis

Alexander Nowak

Nadine Sand

Lara Gerhards

  • Doctoral dissertation

Alexander Nowak

Michele Vagnetti (University of Florence)

  • Habilitation

Elena Ficara

Miriam-Sonja Hantke

 

Member of the PhD Dissertation Committee

Anna-Sophie Heinemann

 

Fellowship Supervisor

Michele Vagnetti (University of Florence), Heinrich-Hertz-Fellowship

Teaching / Lehre

Vorlesungen / Lectures

  1. “Einführung in die Philosophie des Geistes,” SS 2012
  2. “Einführung in die Metaphysik,” WS 2012/13
  3. Was ist Erkenntnis?, SS 2016
  4. Was ist analytische Philosophie?, WS 2016/17
  5. Bewußtseinstheoiren, SS 2017
  6. Emotionstheorien, WS 2017/18
  7. Einführung in die Philosophie des Geises, SS 2018
  8. Einführung in die Metaphysik, WS 2018/19
  9. Probleme der politischen Philosophie, SS 2019

Classes

  1. “Early Analytic Philosophy in Context”, McMaster University, Canada, Jan.-April 2012
  2. "Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tracition", Insitute of Philosophy, University of Saint Petersburg, Oct. 2018

Seminare / Seminars

  1. Baruch de Spinoza, Die Ethik, SS 2023
  2. Martin Heidegger, "Sein und Zeit", WS 22/23
  3. Aristotles Metaphysik, SS 2022
  4. Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik, WS 2021/22
  5. Platons Frühdialoge, SS 2021
  6. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Unterstanding, SS 2021
  7. Baruch de Spinoza, Die Ethik, WS 2020/1
  8. Martin Heidegger zur Einführung, WS 2020/1
  9. Einführung in die Rechtsphilosophie, SS 2020
  10. Platons Spätdialoge, SS 2020 
  11. Aristotles Metaphysik, WS 2019/20
  12. John Locke, Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand, WS 2019/20
  13. Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie, SS 2019
  14. Die philosophische Methoden, SS 2019
  15. Philosophie der Kosmologie, SS 2019
  16. Hat der Mensch einen freien Willen?, WS 2018/19
  17. Themen der Sprachphilosophie, WS 2018/19
  18. Klassiker der Kulturtheorie, WS 2018/19
  19. Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen, SS 2018
  20. Einführung in die Philosophie der Mathematik, SS 2018
  21. Martin Heidegger zur Einführung, SS 2018
  22. Philosophie der politischen Ökonomie, SS 2018
  23. Philosophie der Sprache, WS 2017/18
  24. Philosophie der Biologie, WS 2017/18
  25. Kunstphilosophie, WS 2017/18
  26. Karl Marx zur Einglührung, WS 2017/18
  27. Philosophische Probleme der zeitgenössischen Kosmologie, SS 2017
  28. Wahrheitstherien, SS 2017
  29. Religion oder Spiritualität?, SS 2017
  30. Hegel: Wissenschaft der Logik, SS 2017
  31. Was ist kontinentale Philosophie, WS 2016/17
  32. Ludwig Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen, WS 2016/17
  33. Probleme der Sozialphilosophie, WS 2016/17
  34. Franz Brentanos Deskriptive Psychologie, WS 2016/17
  35. Themen der Sprachphilosophie, SS 2016
  36. Einführung in die Philosophie der Mathematik, SS 2016
  37. Probleme der philosophischen Psychologie, SS 2016
  38. John Locke, "Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand", SS 2016
  39. “Einführung in die Lebensphilosophie,” WS 2015/16 
  40. “Einführung in der Philosophie des Logischen Empirismus,” WS 2015/16 
  41. “Psychoanalyse: Theorie und Kritik,” WS 2015/16
  42. “Themen der Kunstphilosophie,” WS 2015/16 
  43. “David Hume: Eine Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand,” WS 2015/16
  44. “Themen der Wissenschaftstheorie,” SS 2015 
  45. “Was ist analytische Philosophie?,” SS 2015
  46. “Einführung in die Philosophie des Geistes,” SS 2015 
  47. “Was ist Wahrheit?,” WS 2014/15
  48. “Themen der Religionsphilosophie,” WS 2014/15
  49. “Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen,” WS 2014/15
  50. “Einführung in die Metaphysik,” SS 2014
  51. “Bertrand Russells analytische Philosophie,” SS 2014
  52. “Themen der philosophischen Psychologie,” SS 2014
  53. “Gottlob Frege: Philosophie der Sprache,” WS 2013/14
  54. “Einführung in die Philosophie der Wissenschaft,” WS 2013/14
  55. “Einführung in die philosophische Ästhetik,” WS 2013/14
  56. “Die Berliner Gruppe,” SS 2013
  57. “Wittgensteins Weg zu Philosophische Untersuchungen,” SS 2013
  58. “Einführung in die Sprachphilosophie,” SS 2013
  59. “Walter Dubislavs wissenschaftliche Philosophie,” WS 2012/13
  60. “Der Wiener Kreis,” WS 2012/13
  61. “Carl Stumpfs Philosophie der Psychologie,” SS 2012 
  62. “Einführung in die analytischen Philosophie,” SS 2012
  63. “Bertrand Russell’s Human Knowledge”, University of Paderborn, WS 2011/12.
  64. “Gottlob Frege’s Philosophy of Language”, University of Paderborn, WS 2011/12. 
  65. “The Phenomenological Method”, University of Paderborn, WS 2011/12. 
  66. “Theories of Truth,” University of Paderborn, SS 2011. 
  67. “Themes in Philosophy of Science,” University of Paderborn, SS 2011.
  68. “Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations,” University of Paderborn, SS 2011.
  69. “Introduction to Gottlob Frege’s exact Philosophy,” University of Paderborn, WS 2010/11.
  70. “Introduction to Rudolf Carnap’s Philosophy,” University of Paderborn, SS 2010.
  71. “Carl Hempel’s Philosophy of Science,” University of Paderborn, WS 2009/10.
  72. “Hans Reichenbach’s Experience and Prediction,” University of Paderborn, WS 2009/10.
  73.  “The Vienna Circle,” University of Paderborn, SS 2009.
  74. “Introduction to Analytic Philosophy,” University of Paderborn, WS 2008/9.
  75. “Reichenbach’s Rise of Scientific Philosophy,” University of Paderborn, SS 2008.
  76. “Quine’s Word and Object,” University of Paderborn, WS 2007/8.
  77. “Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy,” University of Paderborn, SS 2007.
  78. “Dummett’s Theory of Meaning,” exercise (under­graduate students), University of Bielefeld, SS 1996.
  79. ”Russell’s Theory of Knowledge,” exercise (under­graduate students), University of Bielefeld, SS 1995.
  80. “Analysing Analytical Philosophy, Part II,” seminar, (graduate students), University of Bielefeld, SS 1991 (in English).
  81. “Analysing Analytical Philosophy,” seminar (graduate students), University of Bielefeld, SS 1990 (in English).
  82. “Wittgenstein Colloquium,” together with Prof. E. von Savigny (graduate students), University of Bielefeld, WS 1989/90 (in English and German).
Vita

 

Area of Specialization

History of Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

 

EDUCATION

Dr. habil. (doctor habilitatus) -- in Philosophy (Habilitation), University Paderborn, Germany

Ph.D. in Philosophy -- Lomonossov University of Moscow (Chair History of Foreign Philosophy), Russia            

M.A. in Philosophy -- University of Sofia, Bulgaria                                

 

Theses

MA:     “On Bertrand Russell’s Logic and Plato’s Dialectic” (in Bulgarian).

             

PhD: “A Critical Analysis of the Philosophy of Logical Atomism” (in Russian). 

 

Dr. habil.: “Analytic Philosophy in Context” (in English).

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1983–1989 Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Oct. 1989–Nov.1990 Guest Research Fellow: Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Nov. 1990–Apr.1991 Visiting Philosopher: Sub-faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK 

Apr. 1991–Oct. 1995 Guest Research Fellow: Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Nov. 1995–Feb 2003 Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Sep. 2005–Mai 2006 Visiting Fellow, Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Feb.–August 2007 Adjunct Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte), University of Paderborn, Germany 

Sep. 2007–Aug.2009 Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), University of Paderborn, Germany 

9. Juni 2009–Berufung zum Mitglied Landesprüfungsamtes [NRW] für erste Staatsprüfungen für Lehrämter an Schulen gem.2008, § 30 (6).

July 2009–March 2015 Privatdozent, University of Paderborn, Germany

Sept. 2009–April 10 Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Paderborn, Germany

April 2011–March 2014 Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), University of Paderborn, Germany

March 2014–June 2019 Tenured Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), University of Paderborn, Germany

April 2015–   apl. Professor, University of Paderborn, Germany

 

Visitng Positions

October 2018 Visiting Professor, Institutue of Philosophy, University of Saint Petersburg

Jan.–April 2012 Bertrand Russell Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Sept. 2005–May 2006 Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (PA), USA

Nov. 1990–April 1991 Visiting Philosopher, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

 

Awards

German Acad. Exchange Serv. Travel Grant                June 2019 (Boston & Amherst, MA)        

German Acad. Exchange Serv. Visiting Professorship Oct. 2018 (Sankt Petersburg, Russia)

German Acad. Exchange Serv. Travel Grant               May 2017 (Calgary, Alberta)

Thyssen Foundation Travel Grant                                June 2015 (Dublin, Ireland)

Thyssen Foundation Travel Grant                                Nov. 2010 (Memphis, TN; Pittsburgh, PA)

German Acad. Exchange Serv. Travel Grant                December 2009 (New York)

German Research Community Travel Grant                December 2008 (Philadelphia)

Thyssen Foundation Travel Grant                                July 2008 (Athens, Ohio)

Thyssen Foundation Travel Grant                                July 2008 (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Thyssen Foundation Research Grant                          Universität Padeerborn (2007–2009)

University of Pittsburgh                                                2005–2006 (Visiting Fellow)

Fellow of Thyssen-Foundation, Germany                    1994         

Fellow of Humboldt-Foundation, Germany                  1997, 1995, 1993, 1989–1991

 

apl. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Milkov
Miscellaneous
Since 15.03.2015

apl. Professor, University of Paderborn, Germany

20.03.2014 - 01.06.2019

Tenured Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), University of Paderborn, Germany

09.06.2009 - 01.06.2019

Berufung zum Mitglied Landesprüfungsamtes [NRW] für erste Staatsprüfungen für Lehrämter an Schulen

07/2009 - 03/2015

Privatdozent, University of Paderborn, Germany

04/2011 - 03/2014

Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), University of Paderborn, Germany

01/2012 - 04/2012

Bertrand Russell Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

09/2007 - 01.04.2010

Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), University of Paderborn, Germany

02/2007 - 08/2007

Adjunct Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte), University of Paderborn, Germany

09/2005 - 05/2006

Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (PA), USA

11/1995 - 02/2003

Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

04/1991 - 10/1995

Guest Research Fellow: Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

11/1990 - 04/1991

Visiting Philosopher: Sub-faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

10/1989 - 11/1990

Guest Research Fellow: Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

1983 - 1989

Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Since 15.03.2015

apl. Professor, University of Paderborn, Germany

20.03.2014 - 01.06.2019

Tenured Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), University of Paderborn, Germany

09.06.2009 - 01.06.2019

Berufung zum Mitglied Landesprüfungsamtes [NRW] für erste Staatsprüfungen für Lehrämter an Schulen

07/2009 - 03/2015

Privatdozent, University of Paderborn, Germany

04/2011 - 03/2014

Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), University of Paderborn, Germany

01/2012 - 04/2012

Bertrand Russell Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

09/2007 - 01.04.2010

Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), University of Paderborn, Germany

02/2007 - 08/2007

Adjunct Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte), University of Paderborn, Germany

09/2005 - 05/2006

Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (PA), USA

11/1995 - 02/2003

Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

04/1991 - 10/1995

Guest Research Fellow: Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

11/1990 - 04/1991

Visiting Philosopher: Sub-faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

10/1989 - 11/1990

Guest Research Fellow: Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

1983 - 1989

Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria.

List of Publications

 

Apl. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Milkov

Universität Paderborn
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Humanwissenschaften: Philosophie
Warburger Str. 100
D-33098 Paderborn

Germany

 

 

Books

 

1.    Kaleidoscopic Mind: An Essay in Post-Wittgensteinian Philosophy, Amsterdam/ Atlanta (GA): Rodopi, 1992, pp. 412+x. ISBN 90-5183-388-1. Kindle Edition: ASIN: B004NIFGQ8

    Reviews:

(i) Josef Moural, From the Logical Point of View, 1 (1992–3), p. 92.

(ii) N. Milkov, Philosophical Alternatives, 4:3 (1995), pp. 164–6. (in Bulgarian)

(iii) Gabriela Kassarova, “Kaleidoscopic Mind: Nikolay Milkov’s Essay in Post-Wittgensteinian Philosophy”, in: T. Batuleva (ed.), Bulgarian Voices Abroad: Philosophical Accents, Vienna: Axia Academic Publishers, 2022 (in Bulgarian language), pp. 213–221.

 

2.    The Varieties of Understanding: English Philosophy since 1898, 2 vols., Frankfurt–New York: Peter Lang, 1997, vol. 1, pp. xxxii and 521, vol. 2, xii and 359. ISBN 3-631-48508-5; US-ISBN 0-8204-3222-9.

    Reviews:

(i) Jan Woleński, “Brytyjska filozofia analityczna,” Kwartalnik Filozoficzny, 28:4 (2000), pp. 201–206. (in Polish)

 

3.    A Hundred Years of English Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer (Philosophical Studies Series, vol. 94), 2003, x and 302 pages, ISBN 1-4020-1432-5.

    Reviews:

(i) Christopher Pincock, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004.10.06.

(ii) Max L. Rosenkrantz, Philosophy in Review 25:2 (2005), pp. 128–9.

(iii) Nicholas Griffin, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15:4 (2007), pp. 829–31.

(iv) Ruch filosoficzny 61 (2004), p. 386. (abstract)

 

4.  The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (in Russian), Sankt-Petersburg: “Nauka [Science]” Publishing House (of the Russian Academy of Sciences), 2018.(Философия логического атомизма, Санкт-Петербург: Издательство “Наука”.) ISBN: 9785020397347

     This is a revised version of my 1983 PhD Dissertation defended at the “Lomonossov” State University of Moscow.

    Reviews:

(i) Kosta Benchev, “A Historical-Systematic Monograph of Prof. Nikolay Milkov”, Philosophical Alternatives 28:2 (2019), pp. 159–64.

(ii) Kamen Lozev, “Significant Work of the Most Significant Bulgarian Analytic Philosopher”, Nota Bene 43 (2019) http://notabene-bg.org/read.php?id=790

(iii) Denitsa Zhelyazkova, “Logical Atomism: A Hundred Years Later”, Balkan Journal of Philosophy 11:2 (2019), pp. 187–190.

 

5.  Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. ISBN: 9781350086432

     Reviews:

(i) R. A. Goodrich, in: Phenomenological Reviews (2020). https://reviews.ophen.org/2020/09/04/nikolay-milkov-early-analytic-philosophy-and-the-german-philosophical-tradition/?lang=es

(ii) Kamen Lozev, “Connecting the Dots”, Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13:1 (2021), pp. 103–5.

(iii)  Adam Tuboly, "The forgotten past: Nikolay Milkov on the history of analytic philosophy", History of European Ideas 47 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2021.1922058

(iv) Dimitar Tsatsov, “The new monograph of Prof. Nikolay Milkov–a remarkable research approach”, Filosofia 13:1, pp. 91-3 (2021) (in Bulgarian).

 

6.    Hermann Lotze’s Influence on the Twentieth Century Philosophy, Berlin–New York: de Gruyter, Series “New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy”, 2023. ISBN 983-3-11-072681-7   

 

Book editorship

1.  Zeko Torbov, Erinnerungen an Leonard Nelson: 1925–1927, Herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Nikolay Milkov, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag (Studien und Materialien zur Geschichte der Philosophie Reihe, Bd. 67) 2005, lx + 210 pp. IBSN 3-487-13000-9.

          Reviews:

(i) Dimitar Tsatsov, Filosofia, 2006/6: 58–60. (in Bulgarian)

(ii) Valentin Kanavrov, Philosophical Alternatives, 16:1 (2007), pp. 136–8. (in Bulgarian)

(iii) Wolfgang Bonsiepen, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 63:1 (2010), pp. 26–31.

(iv) Tsatsov, Димитър Цацов, Българо Германските философски отношения, Велико Търново, 2016, pp. 129–135. (in Bulgarian)

 

2.  Hans Reichenbach, Ziele und Wege der heutigen Naturphilosophie: Fünf Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftstheorie, Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Nikolay Milkov („Philosophische Bibliothek“ Reihe, Band 621), Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2011. ISBN-10: 3787321446; ISBN-13: 978-3787321445

    Reviews:

(i) Anita Kasabova, Balkan Journal of Philosophy, 4:1 (2012), pp. 141–4.

(ii) Uwe Voigt, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 119:2 (2012), pp. 471–3.

(iii) Massimo Ferrari, Rivista di Filosofia 104:2 (2013), pp. 339–341.

 

3.   (with V. Peckhaus) The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag (“Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science”, Series no. 273), 2013. ISBN-10: 9400754841, ISBN-13: 978-9400754843.

   Reviews:

(i) Daniel Bosse, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 45:1 (2014), pp. 209–212.

(ii) Clark Glymour, Balkan Journal of Philosophy 6:1 (2014), pp. 72–5.

(iii) Thomas Uebel, Metascience 24:2 (2015), pp. 309–13.

(iv) Alan Richardson, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 5:1 (2015), pp. 174–7.

(v) Tuboly, Ádám Tamás, Organon, 23:4 (2016), pp. 556–560.

(vi) Günter Sander, “Two Books on the Berlin Group of Logical Empiricism”, in: Sami Pihlström et al. (eds.), Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism, Berlin: Springer, 2017, pp. 201–208.

 

4.    Die Berliner Gruppe: Texte zum Logischen Empirismus. Eine Anthologie, Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Nikolay Milkov („Philosophische Bibliothek“ Reihe, Band 621), Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2015. ISBN-10: 3787325220; ISBN-13: 978-3787325221.

    Reviews:

(i) Constantin Yanakiev, Balkan Journal of Philosophy 7:2 (2015), pp. 205–7.

(ii) Günter Sander, “Two Books on the Berlin Group of Logical Empiricism”, in: Sami Pihlström et al. (eds.), Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism, Berlin: Springer, 2017, pp. 201–208.

 

5.    Hermann Lotze, Microkosmos, 3. Bände, mit einer Einleitung und Registern herausgegeben von Nikolay Milkov („Philosophische Bibliothek“ Reihe, Bände 705a–c) Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978-3-7873-3180-2 (3 Bände)

    Reviews:

(i) Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Kant-Studien 109 (3) (2018), S. 504–509.

(ii) Stefan Diebitz, http://mietbuch.de/oxid/Sachbuch/Philosophie/Lotze-Rudolph-Hermann-Mikrokosmos.html

(iii) Michele Vagnetti, Balkan Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 12, Issue 2, 2020, pp. 143-6.

 

6. Hermann Lotze, Medicinische Psychologie oder Psychologie der Seele, mit einer Eingeleiting von Nikolay Milkov, Springer Spektrum Verlag, Reihe "Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft", Berlin-Heidelberg, 2021. IBSN 978-3-662-62983-3 

    Reviews:

(i) Michele Vagnetti, Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences 58:4 (2022)   

https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22213.

 

Book translations

1.    L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

 

2.    L. Wittgenstein, Philosophische Untersuchungen.

 

3.    L. Wittgenstein, Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik.

 

All three translations are from German into Bulgarian, printed in one volume of Wittgenstein’s Collected Papers, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1988, 660 pp. ISBN 953-127361-1

  Reviews:

  (i) K. Koev, Narodna Kultura,  March 2, 1989. (in Bulgarian)

  (ii) Z. Stoyanov, ABV, August 25, 1989. (in Bulgarian)

 

4.    Zeko Torbov, Erinnerungen an Leonard Nelson: 1925–1927, Herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Nikolay Milkov, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005. (from Bulgarian into German)

 

       Reviews:

            See #1 of Book editorship

 

Papers and Reviews

 

In English and German

 

Articles in refereed scholarly journals

 

1. “The History of Russell’s Concepts ‘Sense-data’ and ‘Knowledge by Acquaintan­ce’,” Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte  43 (2001), pp. 221–31.

 

2. “L. Susan Stebbing’s Criticism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus,” Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook  10 (2003), pp. 351–63.

 

3. “G. E. Moore and the Greifswald Objectivists on the Given, and the Beginning of Analytic Philosophy,” Axiomathes  14 (2004), pp. 361–79.

 

4. “Leo Tolstois Darlegung des Evangelium und seine theologisch-philosophische Ethik,” Perspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch  30  (2004), pp. 311–33.

 

5. “Ist Wittgensteins Tractatus in irgendeinem Sinne mystisch?,” in: Theologie und Philosophie 79:4 (2004), pp. 511–26.

 

6. “Mesocosmological Descriptions: An Essay in the Extensional Ontology of History,” Essays in Philosophy, 7:2 (June 2006), pp. 1–19.

http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/milkov.html

 

7. “Russell’s Debt to Lotze,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A, 39:2 (June 2008), pp. 186–93.

 

8. “A Logical–Contextual History of Philosophy”, Southwest Philosophy Review 27:1 (2011), pp. 21–9.

 

     Comment: Randall Auxier, Southwest Philosophy Review 27:2 (2011), 1–3.

 

9. “Karl Popper’s Debt to Leonard Nelson,” Grazer philosophische Studien 86 (2012), pp. 137–56.

 

10. “The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein and Its Demise”, Nordic Wittgenstein Review 2 (2013), pp. 81–105.

 

11. “On Walter Dubislav”, History and Philosophy of Logic 36:2 (2015), pp. 147–61. DOI:10.1080/01445340.2014.962247

 

12. “Walter Dubislav’s Philosophy of Science and Mathematics”, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 6:1 (2016), pp. 96–116.


13. "The 1900-Turn in Bertrand Russell's Logic, the Emergence of His Paradox, and the Way Out", Siegener Beiträge Zur Geschichte Und Philosophie der Mathematik 7 (2016), pp. 29-50.

 

14. "The Method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: Toward a New Interpretation ", Southwest Philosophy Review 33(2) (2017), pp. 197-202.

 

15. "Hermann Lotze and Franz Brentano", Philosophical Readings 10 (2) (2018), pp. 115-122.

Another version of this paper was published in German as: “Lotze und Brentano”, in: Jürgen Vollbrecht (Hg.), Denken im Zwiespalt. Zum 200. Geburtstag des Philosophen Rudolph Hermann Lotze, Bautzen, 2017, S. 24–29.

Translation in Portuguese (by Prof. Dr. Evandro O. Brito, Prof. Msc. Ernesto M. Giusti, Prof. Dr. Bruno Aislã dos Santos e Prof. Msc. Camila Bozzo) as: “Hermann Lotze e Franz Brentano”, in: Guairacá - Revista de Filosofia, vol. 34:1 (2018), pp. 26–44. (DOI 10.5935 / 2179-9180.20180003) https://revistas.unicentro.br/index.php/guaiaraca/article/view/5567

 

16. “Russell’s Conception of Propositional Attitudes in Relation to Pragmatism,” An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, vol. 14. (2020), 117–28.

 

17. “Introduction to Bertrand Russell’s Conspectus of J. E. McTaggart’s Lectures on Hermann Lotze (Jan–Feb. 1898)”, Russell, vol. 40:1 (2020), pp. 53–6. 

 

Review articles in refereed scholarly journals

 

18. “Political Philosophy in Bulgaria—A Fresh Start? [Review Article: P. Makariev et al. (eds.), Cre­at­ing Democratic Societies: Values and Norms, Washington DC, 1999],” Studies in East European Thought  53:1 (2001), pp. 145–56.

 

     Reply: Plamen Makariev, “On Political Philosophy in Bulgaria—a Fresh Look? Reply to N. Milkov”, Studies in East European Thought  54:3 (2002), pp. 207–17.

 

19. “Frege in Context [Review Article: G. Gabriel und W. Kienzler (Hg.), Frege in Jena, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1997; G. Gabriel and Uwe Dathe (Hg.), Frege: Werk und Wirkung, Paderborn: mentis, 2000],” British Journal for the History of Philosophy  9:3  (2001, October), pp. 557–70.

 

20. “Jay F. Rosenberg, Thinking About Knowing,” Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2004), pp. 395–401.

 

21. “Russell Studies in Germany Today,” Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, Issue Number 125/126 — February/May 2005, pp. 35–47.

 

22. “Thomas Mormann, Bertrand Russell, München: Beck, 2007,” Grazer Philosophische Studien 78 (2009), pp. 290–3.

 

23. “Mark Wilson, Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour. Oxford: Clarendon Press,” Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1 (2010), pp. 188–95.

 

24. “Phillip Stambovsky, Inference and the Metaphysics of Reason: An Onto-Epistemological Critique, Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press,” Essays in Philosophy, 14:1 (Jan. 2013), pp. 134–7.

 

25. Erwiderung auf : Margret Kaiser-el-Safti, „Reflexion und Introspektion. Ein Essay zum philosophischen Kontext der empirischen Psychologie“, in: Erwägen–Wissen–Ethik 26:1 (2015), pp. 50–52.

 

26. “William R. Woodward, Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015”, Metascience 25:2 (2016), pp. 221-224.

 

27. “Russell Wahl (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell”, in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019.12.02, https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-bertrand-russell/

 

28. “Mauro Luiz Engelmann: Reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021”, Nordic Wittgenstein Review 11 (2022), DOI 00.0000/nwr.v11i0.3637, https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3640/1

 

Articles in other journals

 

29. “On the Reconstruction of the Early Wittgenstein’s Philosophy,” Darshana International  27:1  (1987), pp. 47–53.

 

30. “Wittgenstein on the Language of Thought,” European Journal for Semiotic Studies 1:2 (1989), pp. 295–305.

 

31. “The Latest Frege,” Prima philosophia 12 (1999), pp. 41­­–8.

 

32. “Lotze and the Early Cambridge Analytic Philosophy,” Prima philosophia 13 (2000), pp. 133–53.

 

33. “Tractarian Scaffoldings,” Prima philosophia 14 (2001), pp. 399–414.

 

34. “A Case for Socialism: On the Use of Theoretical Philosophy in Political Theory,” Labyrinth 3 (2001) (International On-Line Journal for Philosophy, Vienna, ISSN 1561-8927). http://ag.philo.at/~iaf/Labyrinth/2001/Milkov.html

 

35. “Lotze’s Concept of ‘States of Affairs’ and its Critics,” Prima philosophia 15 (2002), pp. 437–50.

 

36. “Tolstoi und Wittgenstein: Einfluß und Ähnlichkeiten,” Prima philosophia 16 (2003), pp. 187–206.

 

Encyclopedia entries

 

37. “Verifikation II,” in J. Ritter, K. Gründer und G. Gabriel (Hrsg.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, Band 11, Basel: Schwabe & Co., 2001, Kolumnen 702–703.

 

38. “Rudolph Hermann Lotze,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010) http://www.iep.utm.edu/lotze/

 

39. “John Wisdom,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2019) https://www.iep.utm.edu/wisdom/

 

40. “The Berlin Group and the Society for Scientific Philosophy”, in: Thomas Uebel  and Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (eds.), Handbook of Logical Empiricism, London: Routledge, 2021, 118–126.

 

41. “Frege, Gottlob (1848-1925)”, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers, London, 2020. (DOI: 10.5040/9781350994997.0008) https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com/article?docid=b-9781350994997&tocid=b-9781350994997-0008&st=Milkov

 

42. “Stumpf, Carl (1848-1936)”, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers, London, 2020. (DOI: 10.5040/9781350994997.0009) https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com/article?docid=b-9781350994997&tocid=b-9781350994997-0009&st=Milkov

 

Chapters in books

 

43. “Der echte Wittgenstein über das Wesen der Philoso­phie,” in Herta Nagl-Docekal (ed.), Ludwig Wittgenstein und die Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna: Ostag Verlag (Miscellanea Bulgarica Series, vol. 6), 1989, pp. 123–37.

 

44. “Philosophy of Language without Meaning and without . . . Language [A Critique of Donald Davidson’s Philosophy of Language],” in Maxim Stamenov (ed.), Current Advances in Semantic Theory (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 73), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992, pp. 197–203.

 

    Translated into Malay as ‘Falsafah bahasa makna, dan tanpa . . . bahasa’, by Rusli Abdul Chani, in: Perkembangan semasa teori semantik, Kuala  Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1998.

            http://library.usu.ac.id/download/fs/arab-fauziah.pdf

 

45. “What is Analytical Phenomenology?,” Analecta Husserliana 59 (1999), pp. 491–8.

 

46. “Logical Forms of Biological Objects,” Analecta Husserliana  77  (2002), pp. 13–28.

 

47. “The Meaning of Life: A Topological Approach,” Analecta Husserliana  84  (2004), pp. 217–34.

 

48. “The Formal Theory of Everything: Explorations of Husserl’s Theory of Manifolds (Mannifaltigkeitslehre),” Analecta Husserliana  88  (2005), pp. 119–35.

 

49. “Vorwort” and “Einleitung”, in: Zeko Torbov, Erinnerungen an Leonard Nelson: 1925–1927, Hildesheim: Olms Verlag, 2005, pp. vii–lx.

 

50. “Hermann Lotze’s Microcosm,” in: A.-T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm, Series Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, vol. 2, Dordrecht: Springer, 2006, pp. 41–65.

 

51. “Sexual Experience,” in: Adrienne McEnvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship, vol. 2, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011, pp. 155–66.

 

52. “Towards a Reistic Social-Historical Philosophy”, in: V. Petrov (ed.), Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces between Science and Philosophy, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2011, pp. 245–62.

 

53. “Einleitung: Hans Reichenbachs wissenschaftliche Philosophie”, in: Hans Reichenbach, “Ziele und Wege der heutigen Naturphilosophie” und andere Schriften zur Wissenschaftstheorie, Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Nikolay Milkov, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2011, pp. vii–xliv.

 

54. “Wittgenstein’s Method: The Third Phase of Its Development (1933–36)”, in: Marques, Antonio and Venturihna, Nuno (eds.), Knowledge, Language and Mind: Wittgenstein’s Early Investigations, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012, pp. 65–79.

 

55. “The Cement of Social Alchemy: Philosophical Analysis of Mind Group and Personal Identity”, in: O. J. Schulz and B. E. Koch (eds.), New Developments in Anthropology Research, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2012, pp. 53–70.

 

56. “Carl Hempel—Whose Philosopher?”, in: N. Milkov and V. Peckhaus (eds.), The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism, “Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science”, Series no. 273, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2013, pp. 293–309.

 

57. “The Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle: Affinities and Divergences”, in: N. Milkov and V. Peckhaus (eds.), The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism, “Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Series”, no. 273, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2013, pp. 3–32.

 

58. “Einleitung: Die Berliner Gruppe des logischen Empirismus”, Die Berliner Gruppe: Texte zum Logischen Empirismus. Eine Anthologie, Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Nikolay Milkov („Philosophische Bibliothek“ Reihe, Band 671), Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2015, pp. ix–lxi.

 

59. “Carl Stumpf’s Debt to Hermann Lotze”, in: Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli (eds.), Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint. Essays on Carl Stumpf, Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 101–22.


60. “Russell and Husserl (1905–1918): The Odd Couple”, in: Peter Stone (ed.), Essays on Bertrand Russell, Wilmington (DE). Vernon Press, 2017, pp. 74-96.

 

61. “Hermann Lotzes philosopische Synthese”, in: Hermann Lotze, Microkosmos, 3. Bände, Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Nikolay Milkov („Philosophische Bibliothek“ Reihe, Bände 705a–c) Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2017, 1. Band, S. XI-LXXV.

 

62. "Bertrand Russell's Religion without God", in: Rod Nicholls and Heather Salazar (eds.), Philosophy of Spirtituality, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 250-72.

 

63. “Drei Länder und vier Universitäten. Hans Reichenbachs Odyssee als Naturphilosoph”, in: Max Beck und Nicholas Coomann (Hg.), Deutschsprachige Philosophie im amerikanischen Exil 1933–1945. Historische Erfahrung und Begriffliche Transformation. Deutschsprachige Philosophie im Exil in den USA 1933–1945, Wien: Litt Verlag, 2018, S. 61–77.

 

64. “Wittgenstein’s Ways”, in: Shyam Wuppuluri (ed.), Wittgensteinian perspectives: Looking at things from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein, Berlin: Springer, 2020, pp. 7-19 .

 

65. “Aesthetic Gestures: Elements of a Philosophy of Art in Frege and Wittgenstein”, in: Shyam Wuppuluri and Newton da Costa (ed.), Wittgensteinian (adj.): Looking at sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, Berlin: Springer, 2020, pp. 505-18.

 

66. “Essay in Formal Biology”, in: Shyam Wuppuluri and Newton da Costa (ed.), Wittgensteinian (adj.): Looking at sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, Berlin: Springer, 2020,  pp. 472-86.

 

67. “Kurt Grelling and the Idiosyncrasy of the Berlin Logical Empiricism”, in: Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics, Edited by Sebastian Lutz and Adam Tamas Tuboly, London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 64–83. 

 

68. “Hermann Lotzes Philosophie der Psychologie”, in: Hermann Lotze, Medicinische Psychologie oder Physiologie der Seele, Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum Verlag, 2021, S. 1-28.

 

67. “Philosophie lernen in sieben Länder”, in: Vanessa Albus und Volker Haase (Hg.), Autobiographisches Philosophieren, Schriftenreihe “Philosophie und Bildung”, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2023. (to appear)

 

70. “Susan Stebbing and Some Poorly Explored Venues of Analytic Philosophy”, in: Analisa Coliva and Louis Doulas (eds.), The Philosophy of Susan Stebbing, “Oxford New Histories of Philosophy" Series, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. (to appear)

 

71. “Wisdom’s Wittgenstein”, Gary Kemp and Ali Hossein Khani (eds.), Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers, 2 vol., London: Routledge, 2023 (to appear).

 

72. “Stebbing’s Wittgenstein”, Gary Kemp and Ali Hossein Khani (eds.), Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers, 2 vol., London: Routledge, 2023 (to appear).

 

73. “Helmuth Plessner und die Berliner Gruppe”, In: Christian Damböck, Nicholas Coomann und Christoph Demmerling (Hg.), Kritische Theorie, Philosophische Anthropologie, Logischer Empirismus. Philosophische Innovationen im Ausgang der 1920er Jahre, Basel–Berlin: Schwabe, 2023 (to appear).

 

Papers in conference proceedings

 

74. “Philosophy of History without Entities,” in S. Bem and H. V. Rappard (eds.), Studies in the History of Psychology and the Social Sciences 5 (1988), Leiden: Rijks­universiteit Press, pp. 209–22.

 

75. . “Russellstein’s annus mirabilis: 1913,” in O. Weinberger et al. (eds.), Law-Politics-Society, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1988, pp. 211–15.

 

76. “Wittgenstein on the Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle,” in B. Djankov (ed.), Logical Consistence and Dialectical Contradiction, Sofia, 1988, pp. 175–84.

 

77. “Elements of a Wittgensteinian Theory of Aesthetic Objects,” in Kjell S. Johannesen and Tore Nordenstam (eds.), Culture and Value, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 3 (1995), pp. 208–14.

 

78. “The Cement of Social Alchemy: A Philosophical Analysis of Mind Groups’ Identity,” in Peter Koller and Klaus Puhl (eds.), Current Problems of Political Philosophy, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 4 (1996), pp. 234–40.

 

79. “Black Sea Athena,” in David C. Durst et al. (eds.), Civil Society in South-Eastern Europe, Blagoevgrad: American University in Bulgaria, 1997, pp. 189–98.

 

80. “Neither Verifiers not Verificators: The Refutation of ‘Truth-Making’,” in Gerhard Schurz et al. (eds.), Pragmatics in Philosophy, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 5 (1997), pp. 637–43.

 

81. “Tractarian Topology: A New Interpretation of the Objects in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus,” in Peter Simons and Uwe Meixner (eds.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 7 (1999), pp. 506–13.

 

82. “The Geometrical Method in Analysing Practical Reasoning,” in Berit Brogaard (ed.), Rationalism and Irrationalism, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 8 (2000), ii, pp. 20–5.

 

83. “Logico-Linguistic Moleculism: Towards an Ontology of Collocations and other [Language] Patterns,” in: K. Simov and A. Kiryakov (eds.), Proceedings of OntoLex’2000: Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases, Sofia: OntoText Lab., 2001, pp. 82–94.

http://www.sirma.bg/ontolex/proc/Milkov.pdf

 

84. “The Joint Philosophical Program of Russell and Wittgenstein (March–November 1912) and Its Downfall,” in: Christian Kanzian, Josef Quitterer and Edmund Runggaldier (eds.), Persons – An Interdisciplinary Approach, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society  10  (2002), pp. 60–2.

 

85. “Stereology,” N. Callaos (ed.), Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002/ISAS 2002) July 14–18, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA, vol. XVIII, Information Systemd, Concepts and Applications of SCI: Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI, Orlando, 2002, pp. 518–23.

 

86. “The ‘Method’ of the Tractatus,” in: Winfried Löffler and Paul Weingartner (eds.), Knowledge and Belief, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society  11  (2003), pp. 139–41. http://sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/1664/1/milkow.pdf

 

87. “Synoptic Logic & Formal Ontology,” N. Callaos (ed.), Proceedings of 7th World Multiconference of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003/ISAS 2003) July 27–30, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA, vol. XVI, Systemics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications, Orlando, 2003, pp. 335–40.

 

88. “Husserl and Russell: 1911–1913”, in: J. C. Marek and M. E. Reicher (eds.), Experience and Analysis, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society  12  (2004), pp. 241–3.

 

89. “Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy: Common Sources, Related Results”, S. Kaneva (ed.), Challenges Facing Philosophy in United Europe, Proceedings of the 23d Session, Varna International Philosophical School, Sofia: IFR (2004), pp. 119–26.

 

90. “Bertrand Russell Early Philosophy of Time (1899–1913),” in: F. Stadler and M. Stoerlzner (eds.), Time and History, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society  13  (2005), pp. 188–90.

 

91. “The Historical Achievement of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,” in: Kant zwischen West und Ost. Zum Gedenken an Kants 200. Todestag und 280. Geburtstag. Ed. by Wladimir Bryuschinkin. 2 vol., Kaliningrad (Königsberg): Kaliningrad University Press, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 200–209.

 

92. “A New Interpretation of Leibniz’s Concept of characteristica universalis,” in: Hans Poser (ed.), Einheit in der Vielheit, Proceedings of the 8th International Leibniz-Con­gress, Hannover, 2006, pp. 606–14.

 

93. “Russell, Wittgenstein, and the Project for ‘Analytic Philosophy’,” in: H. Hrachovec and A. Pichler (eds.), Philosophy of the Information Society, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 15 (2007), pp. 153–5.

 

    Translation in Russian by Alexander Sobantsev, Analytica 2 (2008), pp. 17–26. http://87.224.164.138/analytica/pdf/2008/04.pdf

 

94. “Die Berliner Gruppe und der Wiener Kreis: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede,” in: Martina Fürst et al. (eds.), Analysen, Argumente, Ansätze, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 55–63.

 

95. “Reichenbach’s Concept of Logical Analysis of Science and his Lost Battle against Kant,” Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 16 (2008), pp. 224–6.

 

96. “The Construction of the Logical World: Frege and Wittgenstein on Fixing Boundaries of Human Thought”, in: Elisabeth Nemeth et al. (eds.), Crossing Borders: Thinking (Across) Boundaries, Proceedings of the 9th Congress of Austrian Philosophical Society (2012), Vienna, 151–61.

 

97. “Kant’s Transcendental Turn as a Second Step in the Logicalization of Philosophy,” in: Stefano Bacin et al. (eds.), Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense: Proceedings of the XI. International Kant Congress, vol. 1, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013, pp. 655–67.

 

98. “Frege and the Philosophy of German Idealism”, in: Dieter Schott (Hg.), Frege: Freund(e) und Feind(e). Proceedings of the International Conference 2013, Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2015, pp. 88–104.

 

99. “Aestetic Gestures: An Essay in the Frege–Wittgenstein Theory of Art”, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgen­stein Society 24 (2016), pp. 175-7.

 

100. “Lotze und Brentano”, in: Jürgen Vollbrecht (Hg.), Denken im Zwiespalt. Zum 200. Geburtstag des Philosophen Rudolph Hermann Lotze, Bautzen, 2017, S. 24–29.

 

101. “Strange bedfellows: Hegel’s dialectics and the method of the early analytic philosophy”, in: Hegel-Jahrbuch, Bd. 2021, Heft II, Hegels Enzyklopädisches System und sein Erbe, pp. 227–34.

 

102. “The Composition of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Interpretative Study”, In: K. Lozev and M. Bakalove (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference "130 Years Ludwig Wittgenstein," Blagoevgrad: Bon, 2020, pp. 67-87.

 

103. “The Encyclopedic Stance of Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy”, in: Camilla Serck-Hanssen and Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress: The Court of Reason (Oslo, 6–9 August 2019), 1st vol., Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 349-358.

 

104. “The Brave New World: The Political Turn of 2014–2016, its Causes and its Implications”, in: M. Marinov (ed.), Transformations and Challenges in the Global World, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, pp. 37-43.

 

In Russian

 

Articles 

 

105. “The Concept of Causality in David Hume,” Proceedings of the 5th Scientific Conference of the Bulgarian Post-Graduate Students in the Soviet Union, Sofia, 1981, pp. 41–50.

Another edition: “David Hume’s Concept of Causation,” in: Nikolay Milkov, Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Sankt Petersburg: Nauka, 2018, pp. 200–7

 

106. “The First Epistemology of Bertrand Russell,” in: A. S. Bogomolov (ed.), Man, Society, Knowledge: Historical–Philosophical Essays, Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1981, pp. 79–86.

Another edition in: Nikolay Milkov, Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Sankt Petersburg: Nauka, 2018, pp. 189–99.

 

Review articles

 

107. “G. Gornev, Adaptation and Creativity in the Contemporary Psychoanaly­sis. Erik Erikson’s Theory of [Personal] Identity,” Voprosy Philosophii  1984:1, pp. 134–7.

 

In Bulgarian

 

Articles

 

108. “The Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Science,” Philosophical Though 45:5 (1989), pp. 65–75.

 

109. “Donald Davidson’s Philosophy of Language,” Philosophical Thought 45:6 (1989), pp. 23–32.

 

110. “Apologia pro terminologia mea,” Philoso­phical Thought  47:2 (1991), pp. 110–18.

 

111. “Donald Davidson’s Philosophy of Action,” Philoso­phical Thought 47:3  (1991), pp. 32–42.

 

112. “Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin on the Law of Contradiction,” Philosophical Alternatives 4 (1995), pp. 64–7.

 

113. “An Essay on Reconstructing Wittgenstein’s ‘First Philosophy’,” Philosophical Alternatives 10:2 (2001), pp. 104–16.

 

114. “Four Forms of Russell’s Logical Atomism,” Philosophical Alternatives  10:3/4  (2001), pp. 84–96.

 

115. “Wittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy—and the Nature of Philosophy,” Philosophical Alternatives 11:3/4 (2002), pp. 117–131.

 

116. “Wittgenstein on Contemplation sub specie aeternitatis,” Philosophical Alternatives  14  (2005), pp. 5–13.

 

117. “ ‘Wittgenstein’ and ‘Ilyenkov’: Two Projects for Philosophical Logic,” Philosoph­ical Alternatives  15:1 (2006), pp. 75–86.

 

Review articles

 

118. “The Tasks of Philosophy Today,” Philosophical Panorama, 1985:3–4, pp. 56–61.

 

119. “Philosophers and Fashion: Review of P. F. Strawson’s Skepticism and Naturalism,” Philosophical Thought  44:2 (1988), pp. 113–196

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