Biography
Dr Frédéric Tremblay
Visiting Lecturer
http://uni-sofia.academia.edu/FredericTremblay
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Dr Tremblay holds a PhD in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Upon obtaining his doctorate, he did a Post-doc at the Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, studied Russian at the Russian Language and Culture Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, has been Senior Research Fellow at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at Sofia University, and Visiting Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, Finland. His main areas of research are metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and the history of these disciplines, especially in nineteenth and twentieth-century German and Russian philosophy. He has published articles on the philosophies of Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Lossky, Nicolai Hartmann, Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, and Max Scheler. He is the President of the Nicolai Hartmann Society and has co-edited The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann (Walter de Gruyter, 2011). He has also published translations of philosophical texts from Russian, German, and French into English.
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Selected Publications
Books
The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, edited by Frédéric Tremblay, Roberto Poli, and Carlo Scognamiglio, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
Articles
“Russian Ontologism: An Overview,” Studies in East European Thought, 2020, online first.
“Nikolai Lossky’s Evolutionary Metaphysics of Reincarnation,” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, vol. 59, n. 4, 2020, pp. 733–754.
“Russian Leibnizianism.” In Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact, edited by Julia Weckend and Lloyd Strickland, Routledge, Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy Series, 2020, pp. 165–201
“Ontological Axiology in Nikolai Lossky, Nicolai Hartmann, and Max Scheler,” Nicolai Hartmanns Neue Ontologie und die Philosophische Anthropologie: Menschliches Leben in Natur und Geist, edited by Moritz Kalckreuth, Gregor Schmieg, and Friedrich Hausen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019, pp. 193-232.
“Vladimir Solovyov, Nicolai Hartmann, and Levels of Reality,” Axiomathes, vol. 27, n. 2, 2017, pp. 133-146.
“Historical Introduction to Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of Possibility,” Axiomathes, vol. 27, n. 2, 2017, pp. 193-207.
“Nikolai Lossky and Henri Bergson,” Studies in East European Thought, vol. 69, n. 1, 2017, pp. 3-16.
“Nikolai Lossky’s Reception and Criticism of Husserl,” Husserl Studies, vol. 32, n. 2, 2016, pp. 149-163.
“Nicolai Hartmann and the Metaphysical Foundation of Phylogenetic Systematics,” Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition, vol. 7, n. 1, 2013, pp. 56-68.
“Nicolai Hartmann’s Definition of Biological Species,” Frédéric Tremblay, Roberto Poli, Carlo Scognamiglio, (eds.), The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011, pp. 125-139.
Translations
Nikolai Lossky, “Leibniz’s Doctrine of Reincarnation as Metamorphosis,” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, vol. 59, n. 4, 2020, pp. 755–766.
Nicolai Hartmann, “Max Scheler †,” Kant-Studien, vol. 33, n. 1/2, 1928, pp. ix-xvi. Translated from German to English by Frédéric Tremblay. Nicolai Hartmanns Neue Ontologie und die Philosophische Anthropologie: Menschliches Leben in Natur und Geist, edited by Moritz Kalckreuth, Gregor Schmieg, and Friedrich Hausen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019, pp. 263-271.
Nicolai Hartmann, “The Megarian and Aristotelian Concept of Possibility: A Contribution to the History of the Ontological Problem of Modality,” translated from “Der Megarische und der Aristotelische Möglichkeitsbegriff: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des ontologischen Modalitätsproblems” (1937), by Frédéric Tremblay and Keith Peterson, Axiomathes, vol. 27, n. 2, 2017, pp. 209-223.
Nikolai Lossky, “The Defects of Bergson’s Epistemology and Their Consequences on His Metaphysics,” translated from Николай Лосскiй, “Недостатки гносеологiи Бергсона и влiянiе ихъ на его метафизику” Вопросы философіи и психологіи, книга 118, 1913, c. 224-235, by Frédéric Tremblay, Studies in East European Thought, vol. 69, n. 1, 2017, pp. 17-24.
Nikolai Lossky, “Henri Bergson, Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, Félix Alcan, Paris, 1932 (346 рр.),” translated from Николай Лосскiй, “H. Bergson, Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, F. Alcan, Paris, 1932 (346 рр.),” Новый Град, Париж, № 5, pp. 99-101, by Frédéric Tremblay, Studies in East European Thought, vol. 69, n. 1, 2017, pp. 25-27.
Nikolai Lossky, “Husserl’s Transcendental-Phenomenological Idealism,” translated from Николай Лосский, “Трансцендентально-феноменологическiй идеализмъ Гуссерля, 1939,” by Frédéric Tremblay and Maria Cherba, Husserl Studies, vol. 32, n. 2, 2016, pp. 167-182.
Nikolai Lossky, “Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations. Volume I. Prolegomena to Pure Logic, 1909,” translated from Николай Лосский, “Гуссерл, Логические исследования, ч. I., 1909,” by Frédéric Tremblay and Maria Cherba, Husserl Studies, vol. 32, n. 2, 2016, pp. 165-166.
Book Reviews
“Alexandre Kojève, The Religious Metaphysics of Vladimir Solovyov, translated by Ilya Merlin and Mikhail Pozdniakov, Palgrave Pivot, 2018,” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, vol. 59, n. 1, 2020, pp. 181–183.
“Teresa Obolevitch, Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019,” Studies in East European Thought, vol. 72, n. 1, 2020, pp. 83–87.
“Frédéric Nef, L’Anti-Hume: De la logique des relations à la métaphysique des connexions, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2017,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, vol. 196, n. 2, 2020, pp. 289–295.
“Thomas Nemeth, Kant in Imperial Russia, Cham: Springer, 2017,” Kantian Review, vol. 23, n. 3, 2018, pp. 510-513.
“Filatov, Vladimir P. (ed.), Nikolai Onufrievich Losskii. Filosofiia Rossii pervoi poloviny XX veka, Rosspen, Moscow, 2016,” in The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 96, n. 3, 2018, pp. 551-553.
“David Patterson, Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xi + 321 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-04074-8 (Hardcover),” European Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 11, n. 2, 2017, pp. 203-209.
“Emerson’s Metaphysics: A Song of Laws and Causes, Joseph Urbas, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016,” The Pluralist: Official Journal of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, vol. 12, n. 2, 2017, pp. 120-124.
“Ilona Svetlikova, The Moscow Pythagoreans: Mathematics, Mysticism, and Anti-Semitism in Russian Symbolism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 184 pp.” Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 51, n. 1, 2017, pp. 167-170.
“Michel Bastit, La substance: essai de métaphysique, Editions Parole et Silence, Paris, 2012, 335 pp.” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, vol. 89, n. 1, 2016, pp. 146-148.
“George M. Young, The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers, Oxford University Press, 2012, x + 280 pp.” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 94, n. 1, 2016, pp. 155-158.
“Alyssa DeBlasio, The End of Russian Philosophy: Tradition and Transition at the Turn of the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2014, xi + 216 pp.” Slavonic and East European Review, 2015, vol. 93, n. 4, pp. 745-749.
“On Cicovacki’s Introduction to Nicolai Hartmann’s Philosophy.” Review of: Predrag Cicovacki, The Analysis of Wonder: An Introduction to Nicolai Hartmann’s Philosophy, New York/London/New Delhi/Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2014, first edition, Hardback, 184 pages. In Quæstio: Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics, vol. 14, 2014, pp. 348-350.
“The Metaphysics of the Early Vladimir Solov’ëv.” Review of: Thomas Nemeth, The Early Solov’ëv and His Quest for Metaphysics, Springer, 2014. In Quæstio: Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics. The Ontology of Relations, vol. 13, 2013, pp. 391-394.
“Nicholas Rescher, Essais sur les fondements de l’ontologie du procès, traduction et introduction par Michel Weber, Frankfurt: Ontos-Verlag, 2006,” Philosophiques: revue de la Société de philosophie du Québec, vol. 34, n. 2, 2007, pp. 419-421.
“Nicholas Rescher, Metaphysics: The Key Issues from a Realistic Perspective, Amherst (NY): Prometheus Books, 2006,” Philosophiques: revue de la Société de philosophie du Québec, vol. 34, n. 1, 2007, pp. 217-219.
“Jiyuan Yu, The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, The New Synthese Historical Library, vol. 52, 2003,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 46, n. 2, 2007, pp. 386-388
“Marie-Pierre Morel, Aristote: une philosophie de l’activité, Paris: GF Flammarion, 2003,” Laval théologique et philosophique, vol. 62, n. 2, 2006, pp. 412-418.
“Alain DeLibera, La référence vide: théories de la proposition, Paris: PUF, Chaire Étienne Gilson, 2002,” Philosophiques: revue de la Société de philosophie du Québec, vol. 32, n. 1, 2005, pp. 282-284.