Short Bio

Nikos Erinakis is an Assistant Professor of Social & Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Crete. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy [University of London & recognised research student at the University of Oxford], having studied Economics [AUEB], Philosophy & Literature [Warwick] and Philosophy of the Social Sciences [LSE]. He has taught at the University of London and he also teaches at the University of Athens, the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Hellenic Open University. He is also the Director of Research at the think-tank ENA, while he is a board member of the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra and has been a board member of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. He has been honoured by the Academy of Athens with the Award for Excellent Philosophical Treatise for his philosophy book Authenticity and Autonomy: From Creativity to Freedom (Keimena, 2020). He is also a published critically acclaimed poet and translator of modern European poets. Papers and articles by him have been published in peer-reviewed journals, collective volumes, anthologies and the popular press.

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS  

1. Books

• Authenticity and Autonomy: From Creativity to Freedom, Athens: KeimenaPress,(Series: Philosophy), 2020. [Academy of Athens Αward]
• Image/Logos: Research Issues and Contemporary Approaches, Athens:Eurasia/Stigmos, 2022. 
• Contemporary PoliticalThought and SocialPractices, Athens: ENA, 2023. [Collective volume under contract]

2. Papers & chapters in peer-reviewed journals & collective volumes

• “Why Authenticity precedes Autonomy”, Philosophical Inquiries, vol. 11, no. 1, 2023.
•  “Freedom, Power, and the (Hyper-)Real World”, Contemporary Political Thought and Social Practices, Αθήνα: ENA, 2023. [Forthcoming]
• “What Makes Free Will Free: The Impossibility of Predicting Genuine Creativity”,  Conatus: Journal of Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1 (2020): 9-23.

• “TheEnemyof the People as a treatise on environmental ethics”, Philosophy on Stage, edited by George Pefanis, Athens: Papazisis, 2019,  207-26.

• “The conjunction of contemplation-as-logos and poetry-as-image: Between Heraclitus and the synchronicity of the metaverse”, Image/Logos: Research Issues and Contemporary Approaches, Eurasia/Stigmos, 2022.
• “Authenticity vs. autonomy: An awkward relationship”, in George Arabatzis & Evangelos Protopapadakis (editors), Thinking in Action, Athens: NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Lab Press, 2018, pp. 41-52.
• “The Project of the European Municipality: the Risk of Democratization of the European TransnationalDemocracy”, Europe on the Borderline, Athens: ENA, 2019, pp. 13-22. 
• “Towards a theory of Creativity as the basis of Authenticity”, dia-LOGOS, vol. 6, Athens: Papazisi, pp. 60-77.

• “Authenticy-as-Creativity”, Scientific Annuary Dodone, Part Three, 37 (2014-2015): 41-56.

3. Conference presentations 

• “Intercultural/Interartistic approaches: themes, aspects and methodological issues”, Conference Mapping Inter-Artistic Approaches, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, 2023.
• “Free Will, Autonomy and Informed Consent in-between the physical reality and the A.I.hyper-reality”, 5th Masterclass of Sarcoma and Rare Cancers, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 2023. 
• “Philosophy, Art and Climate Crisis”, lecture at the conference of ELIAMEP & European Commission for the European Green Deal, National Garden, Athens, 2022. 
• “Ethical Cultural and Artistic Management: Economic Imperative or Utopia”, “WhatGreeks believe in 2022” and “Freedom and Equality in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Challenges & Progressive Alternatives”, three speeches at the Delphi Economic Forum in collaboration with the French Institute, diaNEOsis and ENA respectively, Delphi, 2022. 
• “Political Thought and Art in Socrates, Plato and Aristotle”, Series of lectures by theMuseumof Cycladic Art [atLofos Mouson (08.09), the Academy of Plato (15.09) & the Lyceum of Aristotle (22.09) respectively], Athens, 2020. 
• Chair, “Meeting in honor of Tom L. Beauchamp: Bioethics – The Ever-expanding Horizons”,The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory & the Greek Unit of the UNESCOChair in Bioethics (Haifa), House ofCyprus, Athens, 2019.
• “Towards an integrated European Demos: Commonality of ideas and values in contemporaryphilosophicalthought,poetry & art” paper presentation at Forum Mondiale de la Démocratie (Εuropean Council), TheCouncil of Europe, Strasbourg, 
• “Genesis: The dialectic of the prelingual and the lingual as a conjuction of art and thought”,presentationat theInternational Conference of Music & Philosophy, Molyvos, Lesvos, 2018.
• “BeyondCrises:The Conjunction of Critical Philosophy, Art & Poetry” paper presentation at BuchBasel inArtBasel, Basel, 
• “Authenticity-as-Creativity”, paper presentation at Agency, Causality, and Free Will,Zagreb,
• “Politics & Aesthetics in digital hyper-reality”, Deep Dive Conference,Ioannina, 2022. 
• “Cultural and Art Initiatives in the post-pandemic Europe”, talk at Regional Growth Conference, Patras, 2022.
• “Hellenicity: From the European Enlightenment to Romanticism [Politics, Society, Art]”, Series of Lectures at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 2020.
• “Authenticity-Relevant Creativity: A Socio-political Theory” & “Welfare state in the midst ofcrisis:Historicaland Socio-political Extensions”, paper presentation at LSE Political and and Moral Philosophy Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, Λονδίνο, 2015.   
• “Being Autonomous vs. being Authentic: The Convergence of the Kantian Autonomy and theConcept of the Autonoos person”, paper presentation at 26^οInternational Philosophy Conference, Athens, 2014.
• “The Conflict of Kantian Autonomy and Existential Authenticity and their different Roles in(Post-)Modern Thought”, paper presentation at ISME 8^thAnnual Conference, Athens, 
• “The (un-)Tenability of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics” paper presentation at the 23th PhilosophyWorldConference, Athens, 2013.