EDUCATION

• 2001-2005:        PhD in Philosophy, King’s College, University of London.
• 1996-1998:        MA in History and Philosophy of Science, NTUA and University of Athens, Greece.
• 1990-1995:        BA in Philosophy, Psychology and Social Science, University of Crete, Greece.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2014-          Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete.
• 2009-2014: Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete.
• 2007-2008: Temporary Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete.
• 2005-2007: Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.
• 2004-2005: Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, University of London.
• 2002-2005: Graduate Tutor, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, University of London.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Pictorial Representation, Pictorial Perception, Interpretation, Art and Emotion, Values of Art

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS  

Edited Book and Translation

• C. Abell, K. Bantinaki (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010).
• Translation in Greek of S. Davies, The Philosophy of Art. Translation editor, commentaries and critical introduction. Translator: M. Karakoussi. Athens: Michelis Foundation (forthcoming).

Articles and Surveys

• ‘The Literary Translator as Author: a Philosophical Assessment of the Idea’ (forthcoming, Translation Studies).
• ‘Pictorial Experience and the Awareness of Style’. In J. Pelletier and A. Voltolini (eds.), The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation. London: Routledge (2018).
•  ‘Depiction’ co-authored with John Hyman. In Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (2017).
•  ‘Commissioning the (Art)work: from Singular Authorship to Collective Creatorship’, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 50/1 (2016).
• ‘The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 70/4 (2012).
• ‘The Value of Conceptual Art’ (in Greek). In V. Kindi (ed.) Philosophy and Art. Athens: Okto (2011).
• ‘The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception’ (in Greek), Noesis, vol. 6 (2010).
•  ‘Introduction’ (with C. Abell). In C. Abell, K. Bantinaki (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010).
•  ‘Pictorial Perception as Twofold Experience’. In C. Abell, K. Bantinaki (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010).
• ‘Seeing-in’, in D. Cooper, S. Davies, K. Higgins, R. Hopkins and R. Stecker (eds.) A Companion to Aesthetics (Second Edition). Oxford: Blackwell (2009).
• ‘Depiction’ in D. Cooper, S. Davies, K. Higgins, R. Hopkins and R. Stecker (eds.) A Companion to Aesthetics (Second Edition). Oxford: Blackwell (2009).
•  ‘The Opticality of Pictorial Representation’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 66/2 (2008).
•  ‘Pictorial Perception as Illusion’, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 47/3 (2007).
• ‘The Image as a Vehicle of Moral Knowledge’ (in Greek), in Deykalion, 25/1 (2007).
• ‘Pictorial Representation and Moral Content’, Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, vol.1/2 (August 2004).

Reviews

• What is a Picture? Depiction, Realism, Abstraction, Michael Newall (2011). In Mind, vol. 123/491 (2014).
• Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science, eds. Roman Frigg and Matthew Hunter (2010). In International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 26/1 (2012).
• ‘Weaving a Nominalist Conception of Nature, Science and Art’ Review of Nominalism and its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman, Dena Shottenkirk (2009). In Metascience, vol. 20/3 (2011).
• Philοsophical Perspectives on Art, Stephen Davies (2007). In Analysis, vol. 69 (2009).
• On Images: Their Structure and Content, John V. Kulvicki (2006). In Mind, vol. 117 (2008).
• Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures, Dominic McIver Lopes (2005). In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (April 2006).
• Art beyond Representation: the Performative Power of the Image, Barbara Bolt (2004). In British Journal of Aesthetics (April 2006).