Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology

Education

• 1978–1982: Undergraduate studies: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.A.), Department of Philosophy (grade: very good).
• 1986/87–1991: Postgraduate studies: University of Cologne, Philosophisches Seminar-Institut für Altertumskunde-Pädagogisches Seminar – Fields of study: Philosophy, Classical Philology, Pedagogy (regular student, 1986/87-1991); University of Bonn, Institut für Philosophie – Field of study: Philosophy (listener, 1988-1989). Postgraduate scholar of the Sophia Saripolou Bequest (N.K.U.A.) and of the German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.).
• 1991: Dr. phil.: University of Cologne (grade: magna cum laude).

Employment

• 1991–1993: Secondary school education (High school teacher, 1991/92-1992/93).
• 1993–2001: Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Greek Philosophy (R.C.G.P.): 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–: Hellenic Open University: teaching associate (S.E.P.).
• 2006 (SP): University of Heidelberg, Department of Philosophy: visiting research professor.
• 2007–2016: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, Department of Philosophy: tenure-track assistant professor of Presocratic Philosophy (2007/08-2011), tenured assistant professor (2011-2016).
• 2011/12 (FA): University of Cyprus, Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy: visiting assistant professor.
• 2016–: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, Department of Philosophy: associate professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Research Interests

• Ancient Greek Philosophy (mainly Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism), Modern Greek 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)] (with English summaries). 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” (with a Greek summary), 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 dike: Dimensions of dike in the philosophy of Heraclitus”] (with an English summary), 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] (with a German summary), 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”] (with a German summary), in: K. Petsios (Ed.), Euboulia. Studies Offered to Professor Vassilios Kyrkos, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 2010, pp. 95-111.
• “Τεταγμένον τε και κεκοσμημένον πρᾶγμα: Die Suche nach Ordnung in Platons Gorgias” (with an English summary), 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.

Administrative Activities

• 2011–2012: General Secretary of the Greek Philosophical Society.
• 2014/15–: Erasmus Academic Coordinator, Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, Department of Philosophy.