Eleni G. Leontsini was born in Athens and grew up in Piraeus (Attica, Greece) and Norwich (East Anglia, UK) where she attended Blackdale Middle School. She is Tenured Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina, Director of the Platonic and Aristotelian Studies Laboratory (PASL) and Departmental Erasmus+ Coordinator. She is International Research Fellow at the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory (CASCT) at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. She is also Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University (2009-2023), Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Co-Convenor of the Contemporary Aristotelian Studies Group (CAS) of the Political Studies Association (PSA), and Member of the Executive (Central) Committee of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry (ISME).
She taught philosophy at the Departments of Philosophy of University College London, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews (in England and Scotland, UK) from 1998 till 2002 as a Teaching Assistant. From 2002 untill 2004 she taught as an Adjunct Lecturer the Department of Philosophy of the University of Glasgow. In Greece, she taught philosophy as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (and at the Marasleion Academy of the same Department) as well as at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Peloponnese (2002-2010). She also taught at the Postgraduate Philosophy Programme (Direction: Ethics) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [2004-2007 & 2011-2014] and at the Postgraduate Programme of the Department of Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Direction: History and the Teaching of History) [2003-2018].
She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Logic & Analytical Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven (Belgium) and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Public Governance of Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania) under the ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility Programme. She also taught as a Visiting Professor, under the framework of the Overseas Experts Visiting Project of the Ministry of Education of China, at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Nanjing (Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China).
Her PhD thesis has been published in English by the Saripolos Foundation of the the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (E. Leontsini, The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate, with a foreword by R. F. Stalley, Saripolos Library: Athens 2007). She has co-authored the philosophy textbook Anthology of Ancient Greek Philosophical Texts (Athens: OAED, 2009) which is part of the Greek National Curriculum. She has co-edited Kythera: Myth and Reality, vol. 4: ‘Ekklesia, Education, Philosophy’ (with George Leontsinis, Kythera: 2003; in Greek), States and Citizens: Identity, Community, Diversity (with Golfo Maggini, Athens: Smili, 2016; in Greek) and Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics (with Andrius Bielskis and Kelvin Knight, 2nd ed. (paperback), Bloomsbury, London 2021). So far, she has delivered 131 papers in conferences and seminars and has published 70 papers (in English, Greek, and Slovenian) in journals and collected volumes.
Books (authored)
The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate, with a foreword by Richard F. Stalley, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Saripolos Library Series, No. 102, Athens 2007, 306pp. [ISBN: 978-960-526-007-1] [in English].
Books (edited)
1) Andrius Bielskis, Eleni Leontsini & Kelvin Knight (eds), Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics, 2nd ed., paperback, Bloomsbury, London 2021, 236σσ. [ISBN: 9781350251465] [in English].
2) Golfo Maggini & Eleni Leontsini (eds), States and Citizens: Identity, Community, Diversity, Smili, Athens 2016, 492pp. [ISBN: 978-960-6880-63-6] [in Greek].
3) George Leontsinis & Eleni Leontsini (eds), Kythera: Myth and Reality, vol. 4: ‘Ekklesia, Education, Philosophy’, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Cytherian Studies (Kythera, 20-24 September 2000), Kythera: Open University of the Municipality of Kythera, 2003, 488pp]. [ISBN: 960-87742-0-9] [in Greek].
Books (anthologies)
1) Anthology of Ancient Greek Philosophical Texts (Student’s Book for 3rd Grade Junior High-School), with A. Glycofrydi-Leontsini & Christina Sakelliou, Hellenic Pedagogical Institute, Hellenic National Publishing Company for Teaching Books, Athens, 2009, 152pp. [ISBN: 978-960-526-007-1] [in Greek].
2) Anthology of Ancient Greek Philosophical Texts (Teacher’s’s Book for 3rd Grade Junior High-School), with A. Glycofrydi-Leontsini & Christina Sakelliou, Hellenic Pedagogical Institution, Hellenic National Publishing Company for Teaching Books, Athens, 2009, 116pp. [ISBN: 978-960-526-007-1] [in Greek].
Chapters in edited books
1) ‘Going through time together: Aristotelian Friendship and the Criterion of Time’, in Andrius Bielskis, Eleni Leontsini & Kelvin Knight (eds), Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics, 2nd ed. Bloomsbury, London 2021, pp. 76-93. [in English]
2) ‘Introduction’ (written jointly with Andrius Bielskis & Kelvin Knight), in Andrius Bielskis, Eleni Leontsini & Kelvin Knight (eds), Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics, 2nd ed., Bloomsbury, London 2021, pp. 1-7. [in English]
3) ‘Guilt, Shame and the Greater Good: The Use of Moral Arguments in the Greek Crisis’, in G. Maggini, V. Solomou-Papanikolaou, H. Karabatzaki & K.D. Koskeridis (eds), Philosophy and Crisis. Responding to Challenges to Ways of Life in the Contemporary World, RVP series: Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington, 2018, vol. II, pp. 336-346. [in English]
4) ‘Justice and Moderation in the State: Aristotle and Beyond’, in Guttorm Fløistad (ed.), Philosophy of Justice, International Institute of Philosophy, Series: Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, vol. 12, Springer, Dordrecht-Heidelberg-New York-London, 2015, pp. 27-42. [in English]
5) ‘Philosophy and Its History: Evanghelos Moutsopoulos as a Historian of Philosophy’, in Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini (ed.), Un brin de lauriel. Homage au philosophe Evanghélos Moutsopoulos, L’Harmattan, Paris 2015, pp. 62-70. [in English]
6) ‘Sex and the City: Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno of Kition on Erôs and Philia’, in E. Sanders, C. Thumiger, C. Carey, and N.J. Lowe (eds), Erôs in Ancient Greece, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, pp. 129-141. [in English]
7) ‘Cosmos and Personhood: The Moral Status of Humans and Other Animals’, in E. Moutsopoulos & R. Witt (eds), Ordre et liberté: L’univers cosmique et humain (Actes du XIXe Congrès ‘Cosmos et Philosophie’, Athènes, 5-7 Octobre 2010), I.P.R., Athènes 2011, pp. 75-83. [in English]
Papers in peer reviewed journals
1) ‘Egalitarian Aristotelianism: Common Interest, Justice, and the Art of Politics’, Φιλοσοφία/Philosophia. Yearbook of the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, 51 (2021), pp. 171-186. [in English]
2) ‘Aristotle on a Meaningful Life (Critical Review of Andrius Bielskis, Existence, Meaning, Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections on the Meaning of Life, Routledge, London & New York 2017)’, Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia, XIV, 1 (2019), pp. 191-199. [in English]
3) ‘Socialism and Liberalism in the work of Petros Vrailas-Armenis: a kind of Moderate Patriotism’, Cephallenian Chronicles, 19 (2019), pp. 289-302 [in Greek]
4) ‘The Moral Power of the Narrative: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge’, Phainomena, 27/106-107 (2018), pp. 171-182. [in English]
5) ‘Aristotle on Humans and Other Animals’, Φιλοσοφία/Philosophia. Yearbook of the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens), 44 (2014), pp. 219-240. [in Greek]
6) ‘Desire, Eros, Emotions: A Philosophical Reading of M. Karagatsis Yellow Folder’, Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 16-17, B (2013-2014), pp. 419-455. [in Greek]
7) The Motive of Society: Aristotle on Civic Friendship, Justice, and Concord’, Res Publica, 19, 1 (2013), pp. 21-35.
8) ‘MacIntyrov Današnji Aristotelizem: Aristotelizem kot Tradicija’, Phainomena, XIX, 72-73 (2010), pp. 153-165. [in Slovenian]
