Research team
Thodoris Dimitrakos
Principal Investigator
Thodoris Dimitrakos is assistant professor of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens in 2012. He has a diverse educational background, including a Master’s degree in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens, and a Master II in “Clinique du Corps et Anthropologie Psychanalytique” from the Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot. His research primarily delves into the General Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of History, and Metaphysics, with a special focus on scientific change and the foundations of epistemic normativity. He also aims to expand his research interests into the philosophy of social sciences. He has published extensively in renowned academic journals and contributed to several conferences and invited talks. For more information and a complete list of publications, you can visit his website here.
Evgenia Mylonaki
Researcher
Evgenia Mylonaki is assistant professor of Practical Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Patras, Greece. She earned her PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Her written work is primarily in ethics and the philosophy of action. Her work has appeared in the European Journal of Philosophy, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Philosophical Explorations, the Journal of Value Inquiry, etc.. She is co-editor of the series Why Philosophy Matters (Bloomsbury Publishing) and she has co-edited the collected volume Reason in Nature (Harvard University Press, 2022). She is also writing about Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot and she has a special philosophical interest in animal lives, in the collapse of ways of living and in art (film, photography and literature). She is currently working on a book project entitled “Moral Growth; A Study of Ethics in Experience”.
Nikos Folinas
Researcher
Nikos Folinas is a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Anthropology Department, Panteion University, Athens. He holds a BA in Political Science from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, followed by a MA in Political Science and Sociology. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2021, delves into the intersection of Political Science and Philosophy, titled “Problems of constitution and critique of consciousness in Marx’s Capital”. He specializes in Political and Social Theory, focusing especially on the relationship between the concepts of social subject and technological transformation.
Maria Mourtou-Paradeisopoulou
Researcher
Maria Mourtou-Paradeisopoulou is a PhD research student at the Philosophy Department of the University of Southampton, UK, working on Nietzsche’s notion of genealogy under the supervision of Christopher Janaway. She has studied Law (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Political Philosophy and Social Theory (Panteion University) and Continental Philosophy (University of Warwick). She co-organizes the Philosophy and Political Theory Seminar at Panteion University, Athens. She specializes in 19th-century European philosophy and political philosophy, while her research interests also include the interrelation of philosophy with art and psychoanalysis.