Organizers
Ioannis Trisokkas is Assistant Professor of Kant and Hegel at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied philosophy and psychology at Ioannina, London, Warwick and Tübingen. He received his PhD in Philosophy in 2009 with a thesis on Hegel’s theory of the ontological foundation of judgement. Before his appointment in Athens he held teaching and research positions at Warwick, Sheffield, Tübingen, New Europe College, and Yale. Ioannis has been a recipient of AHRC, DAAD, IKY and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. His publications include, among others, Heidegger’s Early Critique of Hegel's Conception of Time (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel’s Theory of Judgement (Brill, 2012), “Being, Presence, and Implication in Heidegger’s Critique of Hegel” (Hegel Bulletin, 2022), “Can Kant’s Aesthetics accommodate Conceptual Art?”, (Con-Textos Kantianos, 2020), “The Two-Sense Reading of Spinoza’s Definition of Attribute” (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2017), and “Hegelian Identity” (Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2016).
Sebastian Stein is currently a lecturer and research associate in philosophy at the University of Stuttgart and is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a project on philosophical method. He has published several journal articles and chapters on Hegel, Fichte, Spinoza, Brandom, Kant and Aristotle and has edited and contributed to a variety of collections with Cambridge University Press ("The Cambridge Critical Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopedia", 2021), Oxford University Press ("Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System", 2017) and Routledge ("Hegel’s Encyclopedic System", 2021, "Hegel’s Phenomenologies: Contemporary approaches to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit", 2021, "Hegel and contemporary political philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism", 2020). He has guest-edited and contributed the article "Hegel and Aristotle on Ethical Life: Duty-Bound Happiness and Determined Freedom" to the special issue vol. 41 of the Hegel Bulletin on Hegel and Aristotle in 2020. He is currently interested in questions about the relationship between freedom, duty and happiness.
Dr. Stavros Panagiotou
Stavros Panagiotou is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Continental Philosophy (esp. Levinas), Ethics and Byzantine Philosophy. He has a PhD in Continental Philosophy, an MPhil in Analytic Philosophy and an MA in Religious Studies and Late Antiquity. He has presented papers in several conferences and published a variety of articles in Continental Philosophy, Ethics, and Arab-Byzantine History and Philosophy. His recent publications include, among others, God, Subjectivity and the Self: A Comparative Study of Levinas and Kierkegaard (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, in progress); Personhood between Patristic Tradition and Analytic Philosophy (London: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2019); “Otherness precedes Asceticism: Emmanuel Levinas’s Criticism on Onto-Theology” (Jewish Thought 3 [2021], 181-220); and “A Comparative Study between Levinas and Kierkegaard on Subjectivity and the Self” (In Statu Nascendi 1.1 [2018], 31-44).
Kostas Morfis (PhD Candidate)
Kostas Morfis is a PhD candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Kant and Contemporary Phenomenology under the supervision of Professor Ioannis Trisokkas. He is interested in Kant's notion of self-consciousness in the B-Deduction and the notion of pre-reflective self-consciousness in Phenomenology. He obtained an MA in Philosophy from KU Leuven with the thesis: Mind the Intuitive Understanding: The Relation Between Transcendental Apperception and the Understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason under the supervision of Professor Karin de Boer. He was a peer reviewer for the Apricot Journal. He has a BA in Philosophy from KU Leuven as well as a BA in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with a scholarship for the duration of his mathematical studies from the Antonios Papadakis foundation. He presented his work in the 7th Panhellenic Conference on Philosophy of Science (talk in Greek here), in the 6th Panhellenic Conference of Cognitive Science, in the Time and Motivation Phenomenology Conference and has a forthcoming presentation in the 14th International Kant Conference.