Kontos Pavlos – Department of Philosophy

Pavlos Kontos

Professor, Department Chair

Ph.D.: Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1992-1995; Diss.: D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger. Supervisor: Prof. Jacques Taminiaux
Master in the Program “Open and Distance Learning”, Greek Open University, 1998-1999
Film-Studies: Athens, 1986-1988

Academic Honours

International Visiting Fellow at Stanford University (Winter Semester, 2023-2024)
The W.J. Bouwsma Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina (2017-2018).
Humboldt-Fellow (2007- ).
Senior Visiting Scholar, Onassis Foundation in USA (Spring Semester 2013).

Visiting Professor

Books Authored (selection)

2021. Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason. Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils. Routledge: New York/London. Book Symposium: Online Book Symposium (08.11.2021) with the participation of: Anselm Müller (University of Trier & University of Chicago), C.D.C. Reeve (UNC at Chapel Hill), Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia), John Hacker-Wright (University of Guelph), and Evgania Mylonaki (University of Patras).

2011. Aristotle’s Moral Realism Reconsidered. Phenomenological Ethics. Routledge: New York/London (2013, Paperback edition). Reviewed by: J. Karbowski, NDPR, 02-09-2011; J. Wisnewski, Philosophy in Review, 2012/3; S. A. Mason, 2012sep CHOICE; C. Davia, International Philosophical Quarterly, 52/3, 2012, 373-377; An. Caeiro, Euphrosyne, XL, 2012, 490-492 (in Portuguese); Fr. Rese, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung; 66/4, 2012, 614-617 (in German); A. Vigo, Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 111/2, 2013, 423-426 (in French) ; S. Millett, The Review of Metaphysics, 66/4, 2013, 841-843; S. Virvidakis, Critica, 2013-09 (in Greek); P. Thanassas, Critica, 2013-08 (in Greek); A. Fermani, Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 1, 2014, 218 – 220 (in Italian); K. Flannery, The Thomist, 78/4, 2014, 634-638.

2002. L’action morale chez Aristote. Presses Universitaires de France : Paris (Anant-Propos and Préface, respectively, by J. Taminiaux and R. Sokolowski). Reviewed by: 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.

1996. D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger. Kluwer (Phaenomenologica 137): London/ Boston/ Dordrecht. Reviewed by: 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.

In Modern Greek

2018 The two eu of eutuchia. Introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Crete University Press: Athens/Heraklion. [English edition; Introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Palgrave MacMillan. Berlin: 2023.]
2005 Kant’s Ethics of Promises. Hestia: Athens.
2000 Aristotle’s Ethics. Kritikê: Athens.

Books (co-)edited (selection)

P. Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle, Cambridge UP, 2018.
V. Foti & P. Koontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political. Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux, Springer, 2017.
The Metaphysics of Sight and Phenomenology, with A. Cimino, Brill, 2016
Kant: Making Reason Intuitive, with K. Goudeli and I. Patellis, Palgrave, Hampshire, 2006
Gadamer et les Grecs, with J. C. Gens and P. Rodrigo, Vrin, Paris, 2005

Translations in Modern Greek (with introduction and commentary)

Ed. Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Menschentums und die Philosophie, Ekkremes, Athens, 2011
Ed. Husserl, Die Ursprung der Geometrie, Bilingual edition, Ekkremes, Athens, 2005
Ed. Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen, Roes, Athens, 2002

Referred Papers (selection)

2021 “Mind your prayers. Aristotle’s notion of euchê,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (Pre-published online: September 17, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2020-0094)
2021 “Hoping-well. Aristotle’s Phenomenology of elpis,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29/3: 415-434 /doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2020.1818054
2014 “Non-virtuous intellectual states in Aristotle’s Ethics,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XLVII/2: 205- 243.
2014 “Gadamer’s Appeal to phronêsis and the Shadow of Heidegger,” The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy XIII: 206-222.
2011 “Kant’s Categories of Freedom as Rules of Moral Salience,” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 65/2: 194-216.
2009 “’Ακολασία as Radical Ethical Vice,” Ancient Philosophy 29/2: 337-347.

Book Chapters (recent)

2021. “Le mal radical chez Aristote et chez Kant. Le cas de Phalaris” in D. Lang (ed.), Kant et les Grecs, hier et aujourd’hui. Paris: Vrin (forthcoming).
2019. “Phronêsis und ihre Gegenstände (VI 1-5, 8-10, 12)” in: O. Höffe (ed.), Aristoteles. Die Nikomachische Ethik (4^th rev. Ed.), 129-148. Akademie Verlag: Berlin.
2018. “Aristotle in Phenomenology” in: D. Zahavi (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology, 5-24. Oxford UP: Oxford.
2018. “Radical Evil in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics” in: P. Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle, 75-97.
2017. “The Myth of Performativity: From Aristotle to Arendt and Taminiaux”, in: V. Fóti & P. Kontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political, 233-251.

Research Interests

Supervisor of the Research Project: Habit and skill: the articulation and usefulness of a neglected distinction, in collaboration with the Birkbeck College, University of London; sponsored by the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology (01/2012 – 12/2013). Total Budget: 160.000 E
“Karatheodori Research Award”: three year long Research project financed by the University of Patras (2003-2006). Project title: “Hermeneutics and Aristotle’s ethics”. Total budget: 30.000 E

Open Internet Courses and Video-Lectures (in Modern Greek)

“Evil in the History of Ethics.” Mathesis at Crete University Press (5-week MOOC; Spring 2021: 5.500 students enrolled): http://mathesis.cup.gr
“Aristotle’s Ethics,” Mathesis at Crete University Press (7-week MOOC; Spring 2017: 6.700 students enrolled): http://mathesis.cup.gr
Patras’ Open Courses: P. Kontos, Kant’s Ethics (9 Lectures) http://delos.upnet.gr/opendelos/player?rid=2c921597
Animated Philosophy: Aristotle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQB7sOKnQRk
“On Friendship”, Cosmote TV: https://www.cosmote.gr/portal/epeisodio-9
“On Friendship and Love” (together with Angie Hobbes), Cosmote History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75Bj5gFIL0

On Sabbatical Leave