Ioannis Κalogerakos

Professor οf Ancient Greek Philosophy 

Contact Information 

 Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications  

• 1982: BA in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• 1991: PhD in Philosophy, University of Cologne.

Academic Appointments

• 1993–2001: Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Greek Philosophy: collaborator (1993/94–1996); researcher C (1997–2000); researcher B (2001).
• 1999/2000–2001: University of Patras, Department of Philosophy: appointed assistant professor (according to PD 407/80).
• 2001–2007: University of Patras, Department of Philosophy: tenure-track assistant professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy (2001/02–2005), tenured assistant professor (2005–2007).
• 2004/05–2023: Hellenic Open University: teaching associate.
• 2006 (SP): University of Heidelberg, Department of Philosophy: visiting research professor.
• 2007–: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology and (since 2019) Department of Philosophy: tenure-track assistant professor of Presocratic Philosophy (2007/08–2011); tenured assistant professor (2011–2016); associate professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy (2016–2022); professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy (2022).
• 2011/12 (FA): University of Cyprus, Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy: visiting assistant professor. 
• 2018/19 (FA): Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Institute of Philosophy, De Wulf-Mansion Centre: visiting fellow.
• 2019 (SP): University of Bonn, Department of Philosophy: visiting professor for research.

Research Interests

• Ancient Greek Philosophy (mainly Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism), Modern Greek Philosophy, Ancient Chinese Philosophy.
• Ontology, Philosophy of Nature, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Education.

Publications 

Monographs

• Seele und Unsterblichkeit. Untersuchungen zur Vorsokratik bis Empedokles, B. G. Teubner (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Herausgegeben von Ernst Heitsch, Ludwig Koenen, Reinhold Merkelbach, Clemens Zintzen, Band 52), Stuttgart / Leipzig 1996, xii+411 pp.; reprint: W. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York / London 2012.
• Παιδεία και πολιτειακή αριστεία. Ο δρόμος προς την αρετή στο αριστοτελικό ιδανικό κράτος [Paideia and Constitutional Excellence. The Way to Virtue in Aristotle’s Best State], Gutenberg, Athens 2015, ²2016, 171 pp. 

Books Edited, Translated (selection) 

• O Aριστοτέλης και η σύγχρονη εποχή. Πρακτικά του Έκτου Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου (Iερισσός, 19-21 Oκτωβρίου 2001) [Aristotle and Contemporary Time. Proceedings of the Sixth Panhellenic Congress (Ierissos, 19-21 October 2001)]. Edited by Ioannis G. Kalogerakos. With a Foreword by Vassilios N. Pappas, Historical and Folklore Society of Chalkidiki, Chalkidiki 2004, 411 pp.
• C. Zintzen, Mυστικισμός και μαγεία στη νεοπλατωνική φιλοσοφία [Mysticism and Magic in the Neoplatonic Philosophy]. Translated from the German by Ioannis G. Kalogerakos, Institute of the Book–Kardamitsa Publications, Athens 2000, 60 pp.
• K. Bormann, Πλάτων [Plato]. Translated from the German by Ioannis G. Kalogerakos, Institute of the Book–Kardamitsa Publications, Athens 2006, 261 pp. 

Articles (selection)

• “Aristoteles’ Bild von der Frau”, in: Platon 46 (1994), pp. 159-183.
• “Die Vorstellung von Licht und Dunkel bei einigen frühgriechischen Denkern. Ansätze der Lichtmetaphysik?”, in: Prometheus 22 (1996), pp. 211-230.
• “Δίκης ὄνομα: Διαστάσεις της δίκης στη φιλοσοφία του Hράκλειτου” [“The name of dikē: Dimensions of dikē in the philosophy of Heraclitus”], in: Hellenika 49 (1999), pp. 225-243.
• “Tο ανθρώπινο πνεύμα και το ιστορικό γίγνεσθαι στη φιλοσοφία της ιστορίας του Iωάννη N. Θεοδωρακόπουλου” [“On the relation between human mind and historical process in the philosophy of history of I. N. Theodorakopoulos”], in: K. Boudouris (ed.), Nεοελληνική φιλοσοφία [Modern Greek Philosophy], Ellinika Grammata, Athens 2000, pp. 95-117.
• “Early Greek Cosmology in the Derveni Papyrus”, in: Diotima 29 (2001), pp. 87-93.
• “Το υποκείμενο στη φιλοσοφία της φύσης του Αριστοτέλη και οι αρχές των προσωκρατικών” [“The notion of substrate in Aristotle’s philosophy of nature and the Presocratic theory of first principles], in: Philosophia 39 (2009), pp. 138-157.
• “Πόλεμος πάντων πατήρ; Νεότερες φιλοσοφικές θεωρίες για τον πόλεμο” [“Is war the father of us all? Theories of war in modern philosophy”], in: K. Petsios (ed.), Euboulia. Studies Offered to Professor Vassilios Kyrkos, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 2010, pp. 95-111.
• “Τεταγμένον τε καὶ κεκοσμημένον πρᾶγμα: Die Suche nach Ordnung in Platons Gorgias”, in: G. Α. Xenis (ed.), Literature, Scholarship, Philosophy, and History. Classical Studies in Memory of Ioannis Taifacos, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 341-354.