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Filimon Peonidis holds a BA in philosophy from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate from the University of Crete. From 1998 to 2025 he was a member of the School of Philosophy and Education of AUTH. He had visiting appointments at various universities in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne and Antwerp. He has taught at the Hellenic Open University, the University of Hamburg, the FU in Berlin and the University of Athens. He has served as Chair of AUTH’s School of Philosophy and Education and as a member of the Ethics and Deontology of Research Committee. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of AUTH’s Centre for European Legal Culture. His primary research interests focus on the history of democratic traditions, freedom of expression, political philosophy, moral philosophy and critical thinking.
He has published the following books: Morality and Lying (1994), John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism (2002), Autonomy and Sympathy: A Post-Kantian Moral Image (2005) [in English], In Defense of the Right: Essays in Practical Philosophy (2007), Democracy as Popular Sovereignty [in English] (2013, enlarged Greek edition 2018) Elements of Critical Argumentation (2014, 2022), (with Nicos Giannakopoulos) Athenian Demagogues: Debunking an antidemocratic stereotype (2018), Prolegomena to Political Philosophy (2020), (with Petros Stangos) The European Citizens’ Assembly: A Proposal (2022), How Democratic Was the Greek war of Independence? (2022), Freedom of Expression: A Recalcitrant Value (2022) and Philosophical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (2024) [in English]. He is also the editor (or co-editor) of eight volumes and the author (or co-author) of more than seventy articles, book chapters and entries in reference works.
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