Kontos, CV
Curriculum Vitae
Pavlos KontosAssociate Professor
Department of Philosophy, Patras, Greece /
Director of the Program of Post-Graduate Studies
University of Patras, Department of Philosophy, Rion 26500, Greece
Tel. 0030-2610-997869, 993722;
http://rdo.upatras.gr/v1/academic_directory/research_record/516/Kontos_Pavlos
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 13/11/67 Marital Status: Married with two children
Academic Honours and Awards
Humboldt-Fellow (2007- ); 01/07/07 - 30/12/07: Visiting Professor at the Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg
Current Research Projects:
· Supervisor of the Research Project: Habit and skill: the articulation and usefulness of a neglected distinction (to be realized by Dr. Christos Douskos in collaboration with the Birkbeck College, University of London). Sponsored by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (2012-2014)
· The Visibility of Goodness: Research Project on Aristotle’s ethics and Virtue ethics, in collaboration with Prof. David Charles, Oxford University, submitted for financial support to the Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF
Scholarships:
· Post-Doctoral Studies, Greek State Scholarships Foundation, 1997-1999
· Doctoral Studies, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1992–1993
· Post-Graduate Studies, Saripolos Foundation, 1991–1994
· Undergraduate Studies, Greek State Scholarships Foundation, 1986-1989
Past Research Projects: “Karatheodori Research Award”: three year long Research project financed by the University of Patras. Project title: “Hermeneutics and Aristotle’s ethics”
Education
Ph.D.: Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Université Catholique de Louvain (hereafter: UCL), 1992-1995; Diss.: D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger. Director: Prof. Jacques Taminiaux
M.A.: Licence complémentaire, Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, UCL, 1991-1992
B.A.: “Philosophy”, University of Athens, Department of Philosophy, 1986-1990
Film-Studies: Athens, 1986-1988
Languages: French (fluency), English (fluency), German (fluency), Ancient Greek (proficiency)
Teaching Positions Held
01/2011 - : Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Patras, Greece
09/2002 - 12/2010 : Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Patras, Greece
10/1999 - 08/2002 : Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Patras, Greece
02/1999 - 08/2002 : Lecturer, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
1993 - 1996 : Research Fellow, Centre d’études phenomenologiques, UCL
Visiting Professor (Erasmus inter-European Staff Mobility)
· Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, UCL, Belgium (Spring 2005, Spring 2008)
· Département de Philosophie, Université de Bourgogne, France (Spring 2006)
· Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg, Germany (Spring 2007)
· Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy (Fall 2010)
Faculty Member: Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, July 1-15, 2008
Faculty Member: Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Italy, July 2010 and 2011
Member of:
· Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung
· Central and Eastern European Conference on Phenomenology
· CASEP (Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics, Metropolitan University London)
Courses Taught (selection):
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Aristotle’s ethics
Kant’s Ethics: The Groundwork
The varieties of Phenomenological Reduction
Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations
Introduction to Heidegger’s Being and Time
Post-graduate:
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6
The moral self (from Aristotle to MacIntyre)
McDowell’s Mind and World
The phenomenology of intersubjectivity (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas)
Memberships to Editorial Boards and Reader
· Reader of: Phaenomenologica Series (1993-1996), Etudes Phénoménologiques (1993-1996), Revue philosophique de Louvain
· Reader of: Deukaliôn, Hypomnêma, Neusis (Greek Philosophical Journals)
· Member of the International Advisory Board: Phenomenological Workshop Texts, Zeta Books (Editor: Lester Embree)
· Member of the International Advisory Board of the Series: libre nigri, Traugott Bautz (Editor: Hans Reiner Sepp)
· Member of the Advisory Board of the forthcoming Journal Contemporary Aristotelian Studies (edited by CASEP)
Organizer of International Conferences
· Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI: Intertwining Interpretations (Patras, June 24-26, 2010) with the participation of: Cl. Baracchi (Milano), D. Charles (Oxford), P. Kontos (Patras), A. Kosman (Philadelphia), M. Pakaluk (Washington DC), Chr. Rapp (Munich), D. Reeve (North Carolina), D. Russell (Wichita), P. Thanassas (Thessaloniki)
http://www.philosophy.upatras.gr/docs/Afisa_Aristotelis.PDF
· Kant: Making Reason Intuitive (Patras, Mai 28-30, 2004) with the participation of: G. Banham (Manschester), H. Caygill (London), M. Forschner (Erlangen), P. Kontos (Patras), K. Sargentis (Crete), S. Virvidakis (Athens), J. Wirth (Seattle).
Invited Speaker in International Conferences and Colloquia (indicatively):
2004a. La philia dans la philosophie d’Aristote (Louvain/Leuven): “Le rôle de
l’amitié chez Aristote et Kant”
2004b. Kant: Making Reason Intuitive (Patras): “The Categories of the Good as Categories of Moral Action”
2004c. “Phenomenology of Moral Action (From Aristotle to Husserl)” (invited by
Husserl Archief and De Wulf-Mansion Centrum in Leuven)
2004d. Philosophie de l’action (Prague): “L’action morale chez Aristote” [see: O. Svec – C. Mihali (eds.), Idea Design, Cluj, 2005, 61-76]
2006. “L’aisthésis morale: Aristote et la phénoménologie” (invited by the Société Philosophique de Bourgogne, Dijon, 2006)
2007a. “Heidegger on Moral Perception” (invited by G. Figal in the Philosophisches Seminar, Freiburg)
2007b. “Aristotle: πρακτόν, its Misuse and its Rehabilitation” (invited by Ch. Rapp, Humboldt Universität Berlin)
2007c. “Arendt: Promises inhabited by Spectators” (invited by J. Capek, Charles University in Prague)
2007d. “Kant: The Twofold Face of Promising” (invited by M. Forschner, Erlangen Universität)
2008a. Corporeity and Affectivity (Prague): “Rehabilitation of a Sensible Moral World”
2008b. Aristotle’s Ethics Today ((Louvain/Leuven): “Phronetic Perception and its Proper Object (against Moral Realism)”
2010a. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI. Intertwining Interpretations (Patras): “Phronetic Perception revisited. Challenging McDowell’s interpretation”
2010b. Phenomenology and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Crete): “Arendt’s alleged quarrel with Aristotle”
2010c. “The Visibility of Goodness” (Aristotele: Natura e azione pratica, Workshop in Roma Tre)
2011a. “The Visibility of Goodness” (Oxford Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, invited by T. Irwin and D. Charles)
2011b. Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity (Patras): Commentator of Natalie Depraz’s “Empathy and Second-person Methodology”
2011c. Aristotle on the Method(s) of Inquiry (Chapel Hill, USA): Commentator of David Reeve’s “Aristotle’s Philosophical Method”
2011d. Art and Truth, Collegium Phaenomenologicum (Umbria, Italy):
“Phenomenological Reduction in Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics”
A. Books Authored
1. Aristotle’s Moral Realism Reconsidered. Phenomenological Ethics, Routledge, New York/London, 2011[1]
http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415896740/
2. The Kantian Ethics of Promises, Hestia, Athens, 2005 (in Modern Greek)
http://www.books2u.gr/Product/93465/Instance/93465/Page/910/
3. L’action morale chez Aristote. Une interprétation phénoménologique et ses adversaires actuels, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2002[2] (Anant-Propos and Préface, respectively, by J. Taminiaux and R. Sokolowski)
http://www.puf.com/wiki/Auteur:Pavlos_Kontos
4. Aristotle’s Ethics as Ontology, Kritikê, Athens, 2000 (in modern Greek)
5. D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger, Phaenomenologica 137, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London/ Boston/ Dordrecht, 1996[3]
books.google.gr/books?isbn=079233776X
B. Books (co-)edited
1. Phenomenology 2010, volume 3: Selected Essays from the Euro-Mediterranean Area, with I. Copoeru and A. Serrano de Haro, Zeta Books, Bucharest, 2011
2. Kant: Making Reason Intuitive, with K. Goudeli and I. Patellis, Palgrave, Hampshire, 2006: http://us.macmillan.com/kant
3. Gadamer et les Grecs, with J. C. Gens and P. Rodrigo, Vrin, Paris, 2005
http://www.vrin.fr/html/main.htm
4. Phénoménologies de la perception, Etudes Phénoménologiques, 22, 1995
http://www.sofi.ucl.ac.be/cep/cep2
C. Translations in Modern Greek
1. Ed. Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Menschentums und die Philosophie, Ekkremes, Athens, 2011
2. Ed. Husserl, Die Ursprung der Geometrie, Bilingual edit., Ekkremes, Athens, 2005
3. Ed. Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen, Roes, Athens, 2002
4. M. Heidegger, Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie, Gnôsê, Athens, 1999
D. Articles (peer-reviewed or after invitation)
Aristotle’s Ethics
1. “Phronesis und seine Funktionen. Probleme und Kontroversen (Buch VI)” in: O. Höffe, Aristoteles. Die Nikomachische Ethik, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 4th revised edition, forthcoming
2. “The Visibility of Goodness” in: C. Baracchi, Companion to Aristotle. Continuum, New York/London (forthcoming)
3. “’Ακολασία as Radical Ethical Vice”, Ancient Philosophy, 29/2, 2009, 337-347: https://secure.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf
4. “A key term, its misuse and its rehabilitation: “τὸ γὰρ ψήφισμα πρακτὸν” (EN. 1141b 27-28)”, Elenchos, 2009/1, 99-115:
http://www.bibliopolis.it/ELENC12009.htm
5. “The Lower Forms of Friendship as Poiesis”, Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, 32/1, 2001, 93-105: http://www.jstor.org/pss/25670336
6. “Le ‘renversement copernicien’ de l’amitié”, RphiL, 97/3-4, 1999, 441-458
: http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php
Kant’s Ethics
7. “Kant’s Categories of Freedom as Rules of Moral Salience”, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 65/2, 2011, 194-216
8. “Kant (and Scanlon) on Promises. Contractual Constructivism”, Studi Kantiani, XXII, 2009, 41-55: http://www.libraweb.net/sommari.php?chiave=29
9. “The Categories of the Good as Categories of Moral Action” in: Kant: Making Reason Intuitive, ibid., 2006, 62-76
Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty)
10. “Heidegger, lecteur de Husserl. Logique formelle et ontologie matérielle”, Revue philosophique de Louvain (hereafter: RphiL), 92/1, 1994, 53-81
http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php
11. “La temporalité de la perception”, Man and World, 28/4, 1995, 415-433
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k1607223160rm354/
12. “Perception et négation (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty)”, Etudes phénoménologiques, 22, 1995, 51-80
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Aristotelian Ethics
13. “Gadamer’s Appeal to phronesis and the Shadow of Heidegger”, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2011 (forthcoming)
14. “Gadamer, lecteur d’Aristote: phronèsis et sciences morales” in: D. Lories - L. Rizzerio, Le jugement pratique. Autour de la notion de phronèsis, Vrin, Paris, 2008, 317-332: http://www.vrin.fr/html/main.htm
15. “Phenomenology of Moral Action after Heidegger” in: H. R. Sepp - I. Copoeru, Phenomenology 2005, vol. 3/1, Zeta Books, Bucharest, 2008, 301-320: books.google.gr/books?isbn=9738863201
16. “L’impasse de l’intersubjectivité chez Gadamer” in: Gadamer et les Grecs, ibid., 2005, 80-99: books.google.gr/books?isbn=271161719
17. “L’éthique aristotélicienne et le chemin de Heidegger”, RphiL, 95/1, 1997, 130-143: http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php
Book-Reviews [regular reviewer for Revue philosophique de Louvain (RphL)]
Selection
1. “C. F. Gethmann, Dasein: Erkennen und Handeln, de Gruyter, 1993”, RphL, 92/4, 1994, 612-614
2. “R. Bernet, La vie du sujet, PUF, 1994”, RphL, 92/4, 1994, 609-612
3. “Robert Sokolowski: Pictures, Quotations and Distinctions, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992”, RphL, 93/2, 1995, 214-218
4. “S. Vergnières, Ethique et politique chez Aristote, PUF, 1995”, 94/1, 1996, 170-172
5. “P. Rodrigo, Aristote, l’eidétique et la phénoménologie,Millon, 1995”, RphL, 94/2, 1996, 338-341
6. “Alasdair MacIntyre: Dependent rational animals. Why human beings need the virtues, Duckworth, 1999”, RphL, 99/2, 2001, 323-327
7. “Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living : Η Τέχνη του βίου, Νεφέλη, 2001», Nea Hestia, 1737, 2001, 338-344 (in Greek)
8. “T. Gutschker, Aristotelische Diskurse, Metzler Verlag, 2002”, RphL, 101/3, 2003, 504-508
9. “Edmund Husserl: Die Bernauer Manuskripte über das Zeitbewusstsein, Kluwer, 2001”, RphL, 101/1, 2003, 168-172
10. “T. Cobet, Husserl, Kant und die praktische Philosophie, Königshausen & Neumann, 2003”, RphL, 102-4, 2004, 667-670
11. “V. Kokoszka, La médiation de l’expérience, Cerf, 2005”, RphL, 104/3, 2006, 602-605.
12. “Gerold Prauss: Die Welt und Wir. Bd. 2/II, Metzler Verlag, 2006”, Kant Studien, 2009, 100/4
13. “Claudia Baracchi, Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy, Cambridge UP, 2009”, RphL, 108/1, 2010, 153-156
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[1] Book-Review: J. Karbowski, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 02-09-2011
[2] Book-Reviews: J. Capek: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 2006/2, 59, 147-158 (also: Reflexe, 29, 2006); P. Rodrigo: Revue philosophique de Louvain, 102/1, 2004, 182-186; L. Elders: Review of Metaphysics, LVI/4, 2003, 888-889.
[3] Book-Reviews: R. Gély: Revue philosophique de Louvain, 95/4, 1997, 731-737; J. De Visscher: Tijdschrift voor Filosophie, 1998/1, 611-612; R. Dreon: Filosofia e teologia, 3/1998, 670-672.