Alexander Kanev

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akanev@phls.uni-sofia.bg

Academic Biography

MA in Philosophy, 1995
PhD in Philosophy, 2000. Thesis: Sense and Necessity. Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics
Habilitation, 2006, Sofia University
Current affiliation: Full Professor, Department History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, since 2012

Main research activities and interests

Contemporary philosophy, metaphilosophy, metaphysics, theory of representation

Memberships

European Society for Analytic Philosophy
Bulgarian Kant Society
Philosophical Society Sofia, 2002-2005

Selected publications

Books

Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language [in Bulgarian]. Svishtov: Tsenov Academy Press, 2003.
On the Nature of Philosophical Revolutions: The Ontological Paradigm and the Turn to the Subject [in Bulgarian]. Stara Zagora: Idea Publishing House, 2005.
On the Nature of Philosophical Revolutions: The Epistemological Paradigm and the
Turn to the Language [in Bulgarian]. Stara Zagora: Idea Publishing House, 2005.
Theory of Philosophical Development [in Bulgarian]. Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2010.
Heidegger and the Philosophical Tradition [in Bulgarian]. Sofia: East-West Publishing House, 2011.
Meaning and Reality: The Later Wittgenstein and Traditional Philosophy [in Bulgarian]. Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2013.