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KALOGERAKOS IOANNIS

Kalogerakos Ioannis

Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy 

Contact Information 

Τel. (office): 210 7277664 

Ε-mail: igkaloge@philosophy.uoa.gr     

Office: 510 (5th floor), School of Philosophy main building 

Address: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University Campus, 15703 Zografou, Attiki, Greece

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. 

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