Stasinos Stavrianeas

Assistant Professor

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Curriculum Vitae

Stasinos Stavrianeas is Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University. He studied philosophy and social sciences at the University of Crete and the University of Edinburgh. He taught at the Philosophy Dept, University of Patras (2005-2022) His research is focused on ancient Greek philosophy and science and especially on aristotelian natural philosophy and biology and the Hippocratic medicine. He is the author of a modern Greek translation and commentary on Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. He is the editor Aristotle on How Animals Move: The de Incessu Animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and of the volume Philosophy and Medicine in Ancient Greece (Crete University Press, in print).

Research Interests

Greek philosophy and science, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, epistemology

Teaching

ELP 22: Greek Philosophy and Science
PHIT 50: Philosophy, Science and Literature
PHIT 53: Philosophy and Music

Publications

Books

(Under review) Αristotle’s Parts of Animals, Modern Greek translations and commentary, Nissos Publications (Athens)

Editing of collective volumes

(In press) Κouloumentas S. & Stavrianeas S. (eds.) Philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece: method and problems, Crete University Publications: https://www.cup.gr/book/i-diamorfosi-tis-paragogikis-methodoy-sta-ellinika-mathimatika-2/
(2021) Falcon, Andrea & Stasinos Stavrianeas (eds) Aristotle on How Animals Move: Aristo-tle’s De incessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays. Greek Text by Pan-telis Golitsis. Cambridge University Press

Articles - Foreign language

(under publication) ‘De Generatione et Corruptione II.2’, in P. Dimas, A. Falcon, S. Kelsey (eds) Aristotle’s De Generatione et Corruptione II, Interpretative Essays and Translation, Cam-bridge University Press
(2021) De Incessu Animalium 7-8: Number and Distribution of Feet in Animal Progression in Andre Falcon & Stasinos Stavrianeas (eds) Aristotle on How Animals Move: Aristotle’s De in-cessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays. Greek Text by Pantelis Golitsis. Cambridge University Press: 157-182
(2018) ''Τhe good, the bad and the ugly: natural teleology and its failures in Aristotle'' in Pavlos Kontos (ed) Evil in Aristotle, Cambridge University Press: 51-72
(2017) ''Homology and analogy in Aristotle's biology'' in Gicheva-Gocheva, Dimka, Ivan Kolev and Haralambi Panicidis (eds.) The Challenge: Aristotle Sofia: University Press "St. Kliment Ohridsky", 2017: 614-641
(2015) ''Aristotle's definition of nature as second potentiality'' στο M. J. Leunissen (ed) Aristotle's Physics': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press: 46-65
(2009) ''Spontaneous Generation in Aristotle’s Biology'' περιοδικό Rhizai: A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and Science, Number V, Issue 2 (December 2008). σσ. 303-338
(2005) ‘Wholes and Parts in Aristotle’s Metaphysics V: The case of universal wholes as ontological predicates’, Philosophical Inquiry, vol. XXVII Winter-Spring: 129-155
(2004) ‘Aristotle’s Concept of Nature in the Physics’, Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse vol.7: 27-51

Articles - Greek

(under publication) ‘The scientific method in the Hippocratic treatise On ancient medicine and its effects on Aristotelian physics, at S.Koloumentas & S. Stavrianeas (ed.) Philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece: methods and problems, Series: Ancient E-scientific Secretariat/ Studies, University Press of Crete
(2017) 'Aristotelian physical teleology' in the collective volume Aristotle Histories, Published by the Laskaridis Foundation
(2008) 'The Definition and Field of Automata in the 2nd Book of Physics'. Deucalion volume 26/issue 1, June 2008: 5-44
(2005) 'The Unity of Teleological Explanations in Aristotle's Biological Works', Legend, 3: 31-59

Research Activities

Translation and commentary of Aristotle’s biological works (De partibus animalium, De generation animalium)
Authoring of material for the project ῾@ristotels῾(ΑUTH) for the presentation of aristotelian philosophy
Scientific supervisor of the project Commented editions of Aristotelian texts (ΕLIDEK). (ΕLIDEK)
Member of the committee of the journal KRITIKA (philosophical bookreviews)