Basil Vassilicos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1669666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Basil Vassilicos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Basil |
| FAMILY NAME | Vassilicos |
| SIGNATURE | VASSILICOS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mary Immaculate College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2615-4417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Qualities of consent
Philosophical work on the concept of consent in the past few decades have got to grips with it as a rich notion. We are increasingly sensitive to consent not as a momentary, atomic, transactional thing, but as a complex idea admitting of various qualities and dimensions. In this paper we note that the recognition of this complexity demands a theoretical framework quite different to those presently extant, and we suggest that the enactive approach…
Expression of Affect and Illocution
In this paper, the aim is to explore how there can be a role for expression of affect in illocution, drawing upon some ideas about expression put forward by Karl Bühler. In a first part of the paper, I map some active discussions and open questions surrounding phenomena that seem to involve “expression of affect”. Second, I home in on a smaller piece of that larger puzzle; namely, a consideration of how there may be non-conventional expression of…
The Freedom(s) within Collective Agency
In this paper, the goal is to investigate the nature of freedom enjoyed by participants in collective agency. Specifically, we aim to address the following questions: in what respects are participants in collective agency able to exercise freedom in some weaker or stronger sense? In what ways is such collective or common freedom distinct from the freedom ascribed to individuals? Might there be different sorts of freedoms involved in and tolerated…
Piper’s question and ours
Mobile students’ appraisals of keys to a successful stay abroad experience
In order to provide better support for students in higher education throughout a mobility experience, it is important to understand their point of view regarding stay abroad. This paper analyzes the responses of pre-departure, while-abroad, and upon-return students of different academic backgrounds (N = 990) to an open question that asked them to name the three most essential factors for making their stay abroad experience successful. This questi…
Le devoir m'appelle ? Reinach et Williams sur les limites (éthiques) de l'obligation
In this paper, Adolf Reinach's account of social acts is examined with respect to conflicts of obligation. The aim is to look at whether Reinach’s phenomenological realism holds its own against positions developed by Bernard Williams concerning the nature and import of obligations, and their capacity or incapacity to impinge upon each other and other moral and non-moral concerns. We shall see that even if Reinach turns out to succumb to pitfalls …
The Time of Images and Images of Time
In this paper, Lévinas’s criticisms and reformulations of Sartre’s phenomenology of imagination, in the early text “Reality and its Shadow,” are explored in detail. Levinas's own views on imagination and art are shown to be intimately linked to his critique of Sartrean temporality, insofar as they rely on a renewed phenomenological examination of sensation. As a result, understanding Lévinas’s discussion of the image provides benefits for graspin…
Mobile students’ appraisals of keys to a successful stay abroad experience
In order to provide better support for students in higher education throughout a mobility experience, it is important to understand their point of view regarding stay abroad. This paper analyzes the responses of pre-departure, while-abroad, and upon-return students of different academic backgrounds (N = 990) to an open question that asked them to name the three most essential factors for making their stay abroad experience successful. This questi…
The Time of Images and Images of Time
In this paper, Lévinas’s criticisms and reformulations of Sartre’s phenomenology of imagination, in the early text “Reality and its Shadow,” are explored in detail. Levinas's own views on imagination and art are shown to be intimately linked to his critique of Sartrean temporality, insofar as they rely on a renewed phenomenological examination of sensation. As a result, understanding Lévinas’s discussion of the image provides benefits for graspin…
Le devoir m'appelle ? Reinach et Williams sur les limites (éthiques) de l'obligation
In this paper, Adolf Reinach's account of social acts is examined with respect to conflicts of obligation. The aim is to look at whether Reinach’s phenomenological realism holds its own against positions developed by Bernard Williams concerning the nature and import of obligations, and their capacity or incapacity to impinge upon each other and other moral and non-moral concerns. We shall see that even if Reinach turns out to succumb to pitfalls …
Mobile students’ appraisals of keys to a successful stay abroad experience
In order to provide better support for students in higher education throughout a mobility experience, it is important to understand their point of view regarding stay abroad. This paper analyzes the responses of pre-departure, while-abroad, and upon-return students of different academic backgrounds (N = 990) to an open question that asked them to name the three most essential factors for making their stay abroad experience successful. This questi…
Piper’s question and ours
The Freedom(s) within Collective Agency
In this paper, the goal is to investigate the nature of freedom enjoyed by participants in collective agency. Specifically, we aim to address the following questions: in what respects are participants in collective agency able to exercise freedom in some weaker or stronger sense? In what ways is such collective or common freedom distinct from the freedom ascribed to individuals? Might there be different sorts of freedoms involved in and tolerated…
Expression of Affect and Illocution
In this paper, the aim is to explore how there can be a role for expression of affect in illocution, drawing upon some ideas about expression put forward by Karl Bühler. In a first part of the paper, I map some active discussions and open questions surrounding phenomena that seem to involve “expression of affect”. Second, I home in on a smaller piece of that larger puzzle; namely, a consideration of how there may be non-conventional expression of…
Qualities of consent
Philosophical work on the concept of consent in the past few decades have got to grips with it as a rich notion. We are increasingly sensitive to consent not as a momentary, atomic, transactional thing, but as a complex idea admitting of various qualities and dimensions. In this paper we note that the recognition of this complexity demands a theoretical framework quite different to those presently extant, and we suggest that the enactive approach…
Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works)