Vasilis Politis (born May 20, 1963) is a Greek philosopher and Associate Professor of

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

at Trinity College Dublin. He is known for his expertise on

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

and

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

. Politis is a Fellow of the

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (german: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is modeled ...

(2009–10) and Trinity College Dublin (2005) and director of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition.

Books

* ''The Structure of Enquiry in Plato’s Early Dialogues'', CUP 2015 * ''Aristotle and the Metaphysics'', Routledge 2004

Edited

* ''The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy'', co-edited with George Karamanolis, CUP 2016 * ''Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason'', Everyman 1993

References

External links

Vasilis Politis at Trinity College Dublin
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