Curriculum Vitae Dr. Kyriaki Goudeli Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy University of Patras kgoudeli@upatras.gr Studies PhD in Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Warwick University, 2000. Title of PhD thesis: Logic and Logogrif in German Idealism: The concept of experience in Kant, Fichte and Schelling M.A in Philosophy and Social Theory, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 1994. Title of M.A thesis: The Antinomies in John Rawl s Theory of Justice Diploma in Chemical Engineering, National Technical Universitz of Athens, 1986. B.A in Astronomy, Liverpool John Moores University 2001 Scholarships and funding 3- year scholarship (for the degree of PhD) from the State Scholarships Foundation, Greece (1992-1995) Languages English, French (Sorbonne II, Institut Français d Athènes), German Teaching Experience 1
1996-2002: Permanent lecturer and director of the M.A in Social and Political Thought at the Department of Sociology, Warwick University. U/G Courses (Warwick University, UK) Theorizing Modern Society (Marx, Weber, Durkheim) Critical Theory (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin) Philosophy of Sciences and Social Theory (methodological individualism, rationalism, relativism, communitarianism) M.A. courses (Warwick University,UK) The Tradition of Social and Political Thought (from Plato to Hegel) (compulsory) Modern European Philosophy I (Kant and/or Hegel) (compulsory) Modern European Philosophy II (Schiller, Schelling or Nietzsche, or Heidegger) (compulsory) Critical and Deconstructive Social Theory (Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Lyotard, Bergson, in various combinations each year) (option). October 2002-: Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Patras. Undergraduate Courses (Philosophy Department, Patras University) -Modern Philosophy: Theory of knowledge-metaphysics (1 st year B.A, core course, 2002-2008) -Modern Philosophy Texts: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz (1 st and 2 nd year B.A, core optional course, 2002-2010) -Kant: Determinant and Reflective Judgment (2003-2005) -19 th century philosophers: Nietzsche (2006-2010) -Themes in modern philosophy: Leibniz, Schelling (3 rd and 4 th year B.A, optional course, 2003-2008) -Seminar in modern philosophy: Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit (4 th year B.A, optional course, 2003-2004) -Theory of knowledge: Introduction to Kant s first and third Critique (2009-2010) -Selected themes in the Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Life (4 th year B.A, optional course, 2011-1012) M.A. Courses (Philosophy Department, Patras University) Theory of Knowledge and Metaphysics, M.A. Compulsory course: - Ontology and theory of knowledge in Spinoza and Leibniz (2007-2008) -Ontology-Time and Perception in Leibniz (2011-2012) 2
Supervision and examination of M.A and PhD theses In the six years of my appointment as a permanent lecturer at Warwick University (1996-2002) I supervised twenty-five M.A theses and two PhD theses. I have examined the following three PhD theses: 1. Discourse on the question of incompletion in Derrida, Foucault and Bataille (Warwick University, Department of Philosophy, 2001) 2. The Social Ontology of Henri Bergson (Warwick University, Department of Philosophy, 2001) 3. Alcibiades II: The philosopher s pedagogical role (Department of Philosophy, University of Patras) During my employment at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras I have supervised six M.A theses and I have been appointed as a member of the three member examination committee of two PhD theses that are in progress: 1. On the concept of pleasure in Ficino and Valla (supervised by Professor Pantelis Bassakos and co-examiner with Professor George Faraklas.) 2. On the notion of truth in Hegel s philosophy (supervised by Professor Theodoros Penolides). Invited External Examiner by Goldsmiths College, University of London, to examine with Professor Paul Hamilton, the PhD thesis: The Feet and the Foot of the Curtain: The Individual Subject in the work of Friedrich Schlegel, Arthur Schopenhauer and Max Stinner. Academic Distinctions 1. My monograph Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant, Palgrave, MacMillan P.C., New York and London, 2002, was selected by the American Philosophical Association (Society for German Idealism) and presented in the 78 th Annual APA Congress (24-28 March 2004), in the Author Meets Critics Session.. It is included in the APA international catalog of selected philosophy books, The Scholar s Choice. 2. Member of the Internationaler Workshop, Philosophische Grundlegung im Ausgang von Schellings Positiver Philosophie, Freiburg and Humboldt Universität 3. Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2008-2011) 4. Reviewer at the philosophy journal Philosophy Study, Chicago Press, USA. 5. Invited speaker at the International Workshop on Schelling s positive philosophy (Freiburg and Humboldt Universität, 18-21 April 2013) 3
Philosophical Societies and Research Centres Founding member of NASS (North American Schelling Society) Member of SEP (Society of European Philosophy) Member of ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) Member of the APA (American Philosophical Association) and of the SGI (Society for German Idealism) Member of the International Research Workshop on Schelling s positive philosophy (Universities of Freiburg and Humbodt) Publications Monograph Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte, Kant, Palgrave, Macmillan P.C, New York and London, 2002 Books (participation in collective volumes) Schelling on Plato s Timaeus, in The Barbarian Principle, Schelling and Meleau Ponty on the Question of Nature, Jason Wirth and Patric Burke Ed. SUNY, 2013 Revelation, Freedom and Future in late Schelling: The eternal beginnings of the divine and the dynamics of the leap, in The Many Facets of Schelling, Sean Macgrath and Bruce Mathews Ed, SUNY, forthcoming. Kant: Making Reason Intuitive, collective volume edited by Kyriaki Goudeli, Pavlos Kontos and Ioli Patelis, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2007 Post-Cartesian Monism: On the mind-body relationship in Spinoza and in Leibniz, in Texts in Modern Philosophy, Open University Editions, 2009, Athens. Schelling s Philosophy of Nature: The Wholeness of Life, in the collective volume, Nature as a Whole, Nisos publications, Athens, forthcoming. Articles Helmet and Pomegranate: Two Approaches towards the Notion of Cognition, in a-r-c: journal for art research and critical curating, July 2000 4
In Quest of a Possible Re-enchantment of the World, in European Journal of Social Theory, Vol.4, 2001 Kant s Reflective Judgment: The Normalization of Political Judgment, in Kant-Studien, Band.1, 2003 The Riddle of Experience: Mythos and Logos in Schelling, in Dialogue and Universalism, No.3-4, 2005 The Potencies of Beauty: Schelling on the question of Nature and Art, in Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Fall 2013, Washington Press. Athenian Democracy and Tragedy, in Skepsis, March 2013 (Re-published in Celestia Nova, 2013.) On the notion of hypostasis and the problem of causality and contingency in early Leibniz, in Axiologika, Athens, forthcoming. The Organicity of Time: The Contingency of Contraction in Schelling s Berlin Lectures, in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Schelling s Positive Philosophy, bilingual edition (English-German), forthcoming The Space of Life in Leibniz and the Holographic Universe, in Philosophy Study, Chicago Press, forthcoming. Current Research Interests 1. Philosophy of Nature and Metaphysics in Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Goethe, Newton, Schelling, Novalis. Temporality and Historicity in Human Consciousness in middle and late Schelling. 2. The question of foundations, subjectivity, and the reception of ancient Greek philosophy and poiesis by the Jena Romantic Cycle up to Nietzsche. Conference papers - On the concept of finitude in Kant and Heidegger, Sussex-Watwick Social Theory Center (regular seminar on Social and Political Thought), 1996 -The concept of New Mythology in Schelling s early and late work, Warwick-Sussex Social Theory Center (regular seminar on Social and Political Thought), 1999 -On the role of contradiction in Hegel s Science of Logic, 2 nd Congress of the European Philosophy Society, London, 1999 5
-The Riddle of Experience: Mythos and Logos in Schelling, ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) 4th Annual Congress, Cracow, Poland, July 2001 -Invited speaker in the 78 th International Congress of Philosophy, by the American Philosophical Association. Presentation of my monograph in the Author Meets Critics Session, Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte, Kant. Pasadena, U.S.A., March, 2004 -Schelling s and Plato s Cosmological Affinities: On the Notion of Archetypes, International Conference, Merleau-Ponty and Schelling: On the Question of Nature, organized by the Conzaga and Atlanta Universities, Florence, March 2006. -Macrocosm and Microcosm in Leibniz and Bruno, International Congress on The problem of the Other in Traditional and Modern philosophy, Conzaga and Seattle Universities, Florence, March 2008 -Schelling s Natural Philosophy: The Wholeness of Life, One-day Conference on Nature as a Whole, Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, Greece, December 2006 -The Transformations of the Concept of Matter, introductory speech in the one-day conference on Matter and Force, Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, Greece, March 2008 -The Potencies of Beauty: Schelling and Merleau-Ponty, International Conference by the Society for European Philosophy (SEP), York, U.K. September 2011 -Athenian Democracy and Tragedy, presented at the 9 th World Congress of the International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD), Olympia, Greece, July 2012 -The Eternal Beginnings of the Divine and the Present Future on Schelling s late Philosophy of Revelation, First Annual meeting of the North America Schelling s Society (NASS), Seattle University, Washington, August-September 2012 -Contingency, Possibility and Nothing in Schelling s Positive Philosophy, International Scientific Workshop on Schelling s Positive Philosophy, Freiburg, April 2013 -The Space of Life in Leibniz, 23 rd World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, August 2013 6