Institut International de Philosophie

Stelios Virvidakis

Professeur

epistemology, metaphilosophy, metaethics, the history of ancient and modern philosophy, the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of literature

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Stelios (Stylianos) Virvidakis was born in Athens in 1955. He studied philosophy at the University of Athens (BA), at the University of Paris I / Sorbonne - Panthéon (Maîtrise, D.E.A) and at Princeton University (Ph.D.) He was awarded his doctoral degree in 1984 and the topic of his dissertation was Transcendental Arguments, Transcendental Idealism and Scepticism. He has taught at the American College of Greece (1986-1990), where he also served as the Director of the Humanities Area, at the Technical University of Crete (Spring 1988), at the University of Crete (Fall 1988), at the University of Thessaloniki (1991 - 1994), at the University of Rennes I (January 2001), at the University of Cyprus (Fall 2005), at the University of Grenoble (November 2012) and at the University of Athens (1994 - ), where he holds a position of Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science (January 2005- ). He has participated in many international conferences and given lectures in various Universities, in Europe, the U.S.A., Canada, Turkey, China, South Korea and Japan, and has published a book in metaethics (La robustesse du bien, Nîmes: Jacqueline Chambon, 1996), a textbook of philosophy for Greek high schools and more than a hundred articles in Greek, in French and in English, in scholarly journals, in conference proceedings, in philosophical dictionaries and encyclopaedias, mainly in the areas of ethics, epistemology and the history of philosophy. Some of his papers have been translated and published in Turkish and in Czech. He is a member of many philosophical societies and a member of the Steering Committee of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Philosophiques (FISP), representing the Greek Philosophical Society. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government. His current research interests include issues in epistemology, metaphilosophy, metaethics, the history of ancient and modern philosophy, the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of literature.

Bibliography

2 PUBLICATIONS (IN ENGLISH AND IN FRENCH)

1. “Kant, lecteur de Platon”, in Sophie Grapote, Dimitri Lang et Mai Lequan (dir.), Kant et les Grecs, hier et aujoud’hui, Paris: Librairie Philosophique Vrin, 2022, pp. 39-56.

2. “Rationalistic Value Realism as a Religion without God: An Option for Metaethical Quietism”, in Krishna Mani Pathak (ed.), Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism, - Mapping the Philosophical Discourse of the East and the West, Singapore: Springer, 2021, pp. 53 -72.

3. Le minimalisme moral en politique”, Diogène 262 (2018/1): 147 – 157.

4. Le réalisme normatif de Thomas Nagel”, Klésis 41 (2018): 61- 102, https://www.revue-klesis.org/.

5. On Bridging the Analytic-Continental Divide”, in Suwanna Satha-Annand, Kanit Sirichan & Lowell Skar (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium, Philosophies in Dialogue: Bridging the Great Philosophical Divides, Bangkok: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Cooperation with The International Federation of Philosophical Societies, 2016, pp. 71- 84.

6. Reflective Equilibrium”, in James Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., vol. 20, Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp. 77-91.

7. “Forms and Dimensions of Spirituality”, Philosophical Inquiry 39/1 (2015): 255-271.

8. “The Puzzle of Greek Identity”, in Shahin Aawani (ed.), Salik-i-Hikmat (The Wayfarer of Wisdom), Essays in Honour of Professor Gholamreza Aavani, Tehran: Iranian Institute of Philosophy and Iranian Philosophical Society, 2014, pp. 95-107.

9. Moral Minimalism in the Political Realm”, in Julien Dutant, Davide Fassio and Anne Meylan (eds), http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/publications/engel/liberamicorum/, 2014.

10. “Living Well and Having a Good Life: Interpreting the Distinction”, Philosophical Inquiry 38/3-4 (2014): 69-90.

11. Cultural Self-Awareness in Contemporary Greek Society”, in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Forum, The Cultural Origin of Lifestyle in Modern Society, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2014, pp. 47-73.

12. “National Identities, Epistemic and Moral Norms and Historical Narratives”, in Ioanna Kuçuradi (ed.), The Problem of Identities in South Eastern Europe and Human Rights, Fifth Balkan Countries Seminar of Philosophy, Istanbul: T.C. Maltepe Üniversitesi Yayinlari No:56, 2014, pp. 105-118.

13. “Virtue Ethics in Perspective”, in Betül Çotuksöken, Gülriz Uygur, Hülya Şimga (eds.), Ioanna Kuçuradi, Çağin Olaylari Arasinda. Among the Events of the Era, Istanbul: Tarihçi Kitabevi, 2014, pp. 447-468.

14. “La critique littéraire a-t-elle besoin du concept de vérité?”, Philosophiques 40/1 (Printemps 2013): 59-69

15. (with Vasso Kindi), “Quietism”, in Oxford Bibliographies on Line, 2012.

16. “On Kant’s Critique of Thought Experiments in Early Modern Philosophy”, in Katerina Ierodiakonou & Sophie Roux (eds.), Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011, pp. 127 – 142.

17. “Cultural Self-Awareness in Contemporary Greek Society”, in Proceedings of CASS Forum: The Cultural Origin of Lifestyle in Modern Society, Beijing, 2010, pp. 13-21.

18. “The Allure of Hegelian Quietism” Teorema XXIX/3 (2010): 163-174.

19. “Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and the Renewal of Contemporary Moral Philosophy”, in Eleni Karamalengou and Eugenia Makrygianni (eds.), Αντιυίλησις. Studies on Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature in Honour of John-Theophanes Papademetriou, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009, pp.293-300.

20. “Varieties of Quietism”, Philosophical Inquiry 30 (2008): 157-175.

21. “Arda Denkel’s Philosophical Vision”, in Ioanna Kuçuradi (ed.), Philosophy Facing World Problems, 21st World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 13, (Inaugural Speeches- Plenary Addresses- Symposia- Endowed and Special Lectures), Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007, pp.359-366.

22. “The Problem of Philosophical Knowledge in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: How to Make Theoretical Reason Intuitive”, in Kyriaki Goudeli,

Pavlos Kontos & Ioli Patellis (eds.), Kant: Making Reason Intuitive, Basingstoke: Palgrave,Macmillan, 2007, pp.129-146.

23. “On the Moral Assessment of Actions: Hard Cases in Applied Ethics”, Skepsis XVII/ i-ii (2006): 177-191.

24. “La querelle des droits de l’homme à l’épreuve de la politique”, Rue Descartes 51, (Février 2006) : 47-58.

25. “On McDowell’s Conception of the Transcendental”, Teorema XXV/1 (2006): 35-58.

26. “McDowell’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Scheme-Content Distinction: The Pursuit of Innocence”, Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie 14/2 (2005): 139-160.

27. “Émotions et raisons d’agir normatives”, in Ondrej Svec & Ciprian Mihali (dir.), Philosophie de l’action, (Actes de l’Université européenne d’été de Prague, Juillet 2004), Cluj : Idea Design & Print, Editura, 2005, pp.243-257.

28. “Ηare et la métaéthique contemporaine”, in Jean-Yves Goffi (dir.), Hare et la philosophie morale, Recherches sur la philosophe et le langage 23 (2004): 93-110.

29. «Le problème philosophique du sens de la vie», in Paul-Antoine Miquel, Ciprian Mihali (dir.), Pouvoir et vie, (Actes de l’Université européenne d’été de Nice, Juillet 2003), Cluj: Idea Design & Print, Editura, 2004, pp.199-216.

30. “On the Relations Between Philosophy and Literature”, Philosophical Inquiry 25 (2003): 161-169.

31. “Les arguments transcendantaux et le problème de la justification de la normativité morale”, Philosophiques 28 (2001): 109-128.

32. “Contemporary Approaches to Aristotle’s Moral Realism”, in Demetra Sfendoni- Mentzou, Jagdish Hattiangadi, David Johnson (eds.), Aristotle and Contemporary Science, New York: Peter Lang, 2001, pp. 251-262

33. “Stratégies de modération du réalisme moral”, in Ruwen Ogien (dir.), Le réalisme moral, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999, pp. 420-456.

34. “Analytic Philosophy in Greece”, Dialectica, 51 (1997): 135 -43.

35. “Levels and Forms of Argumentation in the Nicomachean Ethics”, in Nikolaos Avgelis & Filimon Peonidis (eds.), Aristotle on Logic, Language and Science, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas, 1997, 239-249.

36. “La connaissance morale”, in Monique Canto-Sperber (dir.), Dictionnaire d’éthique et de philosophie morale, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1996, pp. 301-310.

37. La robustesse du bien, Nîmes, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 1996.

38. “Neopragmatism and Anti-theoretical Tendencies in Moral Philosophy and in Literary Criticism”, in S. Patsalides, (ed.), Hellenism and the U.S Constructions and Deconstructions, Thessaloniki, Aristotle University, 1994, pp.149-160.

39. “Rationality, Morality and Realism”, in M. Assimakopoulos, K. Gavroglou, Nikolakopoulos (eds.), Historical Types of Rationality, Proceedings of the First Greek-Soviet Symposium on Science and Society, Athens, October 23-6, 1990, Athens: National Technical University of Athens, 1992, pp.195-207.

40. “On Constructing and Discovering Moral Facts”, (“Kantian Autonomy and Moral Truth”), in G. Funke (Hrg.), Akten des Siebenten Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Kurfürstliches Schloss zu Mainz, 1990, Bonn: Bouvier, 1991, pp. 429-38.

41. “Wittgenstein and the Development of Transcendental Philosophy”, in R. Haller & J. Brandl (eds.), Wittgenstein; Towards a Re-Evaluation, Proceedings of the 14th Wittgenstein-Symposium: Centenary Celebration, 13th to 20th August 1989, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Wien 1990: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky Verlag, 1990, vol. 3, pp.144-46.

42. “Variétés du réalisme en philosophie morale”, Philosophie, 22, (1989):11-35.

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