Ioannis Trisokkas

Assistant Professor of Kant and Hegel

Contact Information 

 Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

• PhD, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK, 2009
• MA, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 2001
• BA, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, University of Ioannina, 2000 

 Research Interests

• Transcendental Philosophy (Kant)
• German Idealism (especially Hegel)
• Phenomenology (especially Heidegger)
• Early Modern Philosophy (especially Spinoza)
• History of Philosophy of Science
• Aesthetics (especially Analytic Aesthetics)

 Employment

• Assistant Professor of Kant and Hegel, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2021-
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, 2019-2021
• Teaching Associate, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, 2017-2019
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen, 2015-2017
• Teaching Associate, Open University of Cyprus, 2013-2015
• Teaching Associate, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, 2014-2015
• EntE Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe College, Bucharest, 2013-2014
• Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Yale University, March-June 2014
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, 2012-2013
• Fixed-Term Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, 2009-2010
• Early Career Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, 2008-2009 
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 Books

• (2024) Time and Concept: Heidegger’s Early Confrontation with Hegel (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• (2012) Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel’s Theory of Judgement: A Treatise on the Possibility of Scientific Inquiry (Leiden και Boston: Brill)

 Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Book Reviews

• (2023) ‘What matters: Heidegger on Hegel’, Hegel Bulletin (forthcoming)
• (2022) ‘Being, presence and implication in Heidegger’s critique of Hegel’, Hegel Bulletin (forthcoming)
• (2023) ‘Experience and self-awareness in the Hegelian phenomenology of self-consciousness,” in M. Mantzanas (ed.), Experience and Self-Awareness (forthcoming)
• (2022) ‘Heidegger on the beginning of Hegel’s Phenomenology’, in I. Boldyrev και S. Stein (eds.), Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings (London: Routledge), 14-32
• (2021) ‘Phenomenology as metaphysics: On Heidegger’s interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit’, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 25:2, 125-154
• (2021) ‘The stubbornness of nature in art: A reading of §§556, 558 and 560 of Hegel’s Encyclopedia’, in J. Wretzel and S. Stein (eds.), Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 232-250
• (2020) ‘Can Kant’s aesthetics accommodate conceptual art?’, Con-Textos Kantianos 12, 226-247
• (2020) ‘What is wrong with machine art? Autonomy, spirituality, consciousness, and human survival’, Humanities Bulletin 3:2, 9-26
• (2019) Book Review: K. Pollock, Kant’s Theory of Normativity: Exploring the Space of Reasons (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017), in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27:6, 1251-1254
• (2019) ‘Boris Hessen and Newton’s God’, Society and Politics 13:1, 64-86
• (2017) ‘Hegel on scepticism in the Logic of Essence’, in J. Kozatsas et al.(ed.), Hegel and Skepticism (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter), 99-120
• (2017) ‘The two-sense reading of Spinoza’s definition of attribute’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25:6, 1093-1115
• (2016) ‘Hegelian identity’, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 47:2, 98-116 [Republished in: R. Winkler (ed.), Identity and Difference (London: Routledge)]
• (2015) ‘Descartes’ solitude thesis: A neglected aspect of Cartesian methodology’, New Europe College Yearbook, 153-182
• (2014) ‘The logic of the border’, The Russian Sociological Review 13:4, 18-41
• (2014) ‘Anachronism, antiquarianism and Konstellationsforschung: A critique of Beiser’, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 44:1, 87-113
• (2013) Book Review: A. W. Wood και S. S. Hahn (eds.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013), in Philosophy in Review 33:5, 424-429
• (2012) Book Review: C. Todd, The Philosophy of Wine: A Case of Truth, Beauty and Intoxication (Montreal και Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010), in Metapsychology 16:1, 13-18
• (2012) ‘Hegel on the particular in the Science of Logic’, The Owl of Miverva 43, 1-40
• (2011) Book Review: A. Goldman και D. Whitcomb (eds.), Social Epistemology: Essential Readings (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011), in Metapsychology 15:2, 63-69
• (2011) ‘Silencing the philosopher’, Babilónia - Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução 10/11, 61-75
• (2010) Book Review: F. Close, Anti-Matter (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), in Metapsychology 14:3, 7-12
• (2010) Book Review: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, ed. T. Pentzopoulou-Valala and S. Demopoulos (Thessaloniki: Zetros, 2007), in Critica 1, 1-7
• (2010) Book Review: S. Bais, In Praise of Science (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010), in Metapsychology 14:1, 53-59
• (2010) Book Review: D. Garber and B. Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns (Princeton και Oxford: Princeton UP, 2008), in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18, 348-351
• (2009) ‘Hegel’s early response to Pyrrhonian scepticism’, in P. Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. III (Αθήνα: ATINER), 241-252
• (2009) ‘The speculative logical theory of universality’, The Owl of Minerva 40, 141-174
• (2008) ‘Hegel’s analysis of universality in the Science of Logic’, in P. Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. II (Αθήνα: ATINER, 2008), 120-131
• (2008) ‘Truth, judgement and speculative logic’, Hegel Bulletin 57/58, 154-172
• (2008) ‘Presuppositionless scepticism’, Pli 19, 100-126

 Reviewer in Philosophy Journals

• Inquiry
• International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
• The Owl of Minerva
• Kriterion Revista de Filosofia,
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy
• Hegel Bulletin
• Idealistic Studies
• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• Studia Heideggeriana

 Awards

• Alexander von Humboldt (2015-2017)
• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2013-2014)
• European Journal of Philosophy (2008)
• DAAD (2005-2006)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (2004-2008)
• Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship (WPRF) (2004-2008)
• Onassis Foundation (2002-2003)
• University of London (2002-2003)
• Ι.Κ.Υ. Cyprus (2000-2001)
• Ι.Κ.Υ. Greece (1996-2000)

   Teaching

• Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge: Heidegger and Hegel (NKUA, MA, 2022-2023)
• Modern Philosophy: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (NKUA, MA, 2021-22, 2022-23)
• Seminar: Philosophy of the Sciences (NKUA, 2022-23)
• Theory of Knowledge (NKUA, 2022-23)
• Modern European Philosophy III: Kant (NKUA, 2021-22, 2022-23)
• Contemporary Philosophy V: Positivism - Logical Positivism (NKUA, 2021-22)
•  Modern European Philosophy IV: German Idealism (NKUA, 2021-22, 2022-23)
• Modern European Philosophy IV: German Idealism (NKUA, 2021-22)
• Modern Empiricism: Locke and Hume (Cyprus, 2019-20)
• Epistemology and Methodology of Social Sciences (Cyprus, Psychology, MSc Program, 2019-20)
• Social and Political Philosophy: Political Sovereignty and the State of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (Cyprus, 2018-19)
• Modern Philosophy: Empiricism and Rationalism (Cyprus, 2018-19)
• Social and Political Philosophy: Spinoza’s Political Philosophy (Cyprus, 2017-18)
• Seminar in Aesthetics: The Problem of the Definition of Art (Cyprus, 2017-18)
• Introduction to Aesthetics (Cyprus, 2017-18)
• Kant’s Philosophical Theology (Tübingen, 2015-16)
• Ancient Greek Philosophy and Science (Cyprus, 2014-15, 2013-14)
• Introduction to Metaphysics: Causality, Properties, Individuation (Cyprus, 2014-15)
• Seminar in Metaphysics: Identity and Difference (Cyprus, 2014-15)
• Seminar in Kant: Intellectual Intuition, Transcendent Knowledge, and Matter (Bucharest, 2013-14)
• Phenomenology: Heidegger’s Being and Time (Cyprus, 2012-13)
• Seminar in Kant: Transcendental Analytic (Cyprus, 2012-13)
• History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Hegel (Cyprus, 2012-13)
• Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger (Sheffield, 2009-10)
• Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Sheffield, 2009-10)
• History of Modern Philosophy I: Empiricism and Rationalism (Warwick, 2008 - 09)
• History of Modern Philosophy II: Kant (Warwick, 2008-09)
• Plato: Symposium (Warwick, 2008-09)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy I: Presocratics (Warwick, 2007-08, 2006-07)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy II: Socrates and Plato (Warwick, 2007-08, 2006-07)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy III: Aristotle (Warwick, 2007-08, 2006-07)
• Logic I (Warwick, 2007-08)
• Introduction to Philosophy (Warwick, 2004-05)
• Ethics I (Warwick, 2004-05)

Other activities

• The Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism (Director)

Current Doctoral Students

• (2022-) Kallinikos Panagiotis (Philosophy of History)
• (2023-) Kostas Morfis (Kant and Contemporary Phenomenology)

Current Postdoctoral Students

• (2022-) Dr. Stavros Panagiotou (Hegel and Levinas)