University of Ioannina/Greece

Faculty Member, Philosophy, Education and Psychology

Lecturer in Philosophy

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Eleni Leontsini is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy (Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology, Faculty of Arts) of the University of Ioannina, Greece.

Currently, she is also teaching at the Greek Civilization Undergraduate Programme of the Hellenic Open University and at the Postgraduate Philosophy Programme (M.A. in Moral Philosophy) of the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

She was born in Athens and grew up in Piraeus, Greece and Norwich, UK where she attended Blackdale Middle School (Norwich, East Anglia). She graduated with the grade ‘Excellent’ from Ionideios Pilot School of Piraeus and then read for her B.A. (4yr course) in the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogy (specialization: Philosophy) at the Faculty of Arts of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she graduated first in her class (first out of 300 approximately).

Under scholarships from the Public Benefit Foundation Alexander S. Onassis, the A.G. Leventis Foundation (Paris, France) and the Maria Stai Foundation of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she completed her postgraduate studies at University College London and at the University of Glasgow that led to the acquisition of her Ph.D. in Philosophy (2002) from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Professor Richard Stalley. The title of her Ph.D. thesis was ‘The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate’. During the academic year 2003-2004 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation working on the research project ‘Political Friendship and Justice: Aristotelian Friendship and Contemporary Liberal Theory’.

She taught philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Glasgow from 1998 to 2004. From 2000 until 2002, she also taught philosophy at the Departments of Philosophy of the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews. She has also taught philosophy at the Faculty of Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2003-2010), at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Peloponnese (2004-2010), at the Marasleion Academy of Primary Education (2003-2006), the Postgraduate Programme (M.A. in History & History Didactics) of the Faculty of Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2004-2010) and at the Postgraduate Philosophy Programme (M.A. in Moral Philosophy) of the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2004-2007). In November 2009 she was unanimously elected to a Lectureship in ‘History of Philosophy: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Neohellenic Philosophy’ at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina.

She specializes in ethics and political philosophy and the history of these subjects, particularly Aristotle and neo-Aristotelianism. She also has a special research interest in the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and she is working on a monograph on his appropriation of Aristotle (in Greek). She has given papers in conferences and has published widely in journals and collected volumes at home and abroad. Her doctoral thesis was published in English by the Saripolos Foundation of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [E. Leontsini (2007), The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate, with a foreword by R.F. Stalley (Athens: Saripolos Library)]. She has co-authored the philosophy textbook for the 3rd Grade of the Greek Junior High-School entitled Anthology of Ancient Greek Philosophical Texts (Athens 2009) which is currently part of the Greek National Curriculum. She is completing a monograph on "Acts and Omissions: Problems in Applied Ethics" and a book on Aristotle’s moral and political philosophy, both in Greek. Also, she is currently editing a volume of collected papers on "Friendship in Society: The Idea of Friendship in the Age of the Enlightenment" and working on a monograph on Aristotle’s notion of civic friendship, both in English.

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