Kapantais Doukas


Doukas Kapantais
Researcher

Biographical note

PERSONAL

Citizenship: Greek.

Born: 30 December 1971.

Status: Research Director.

 

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF BERN (2004-2007)

PhD in Logic, History of Philosophy. The Sea-Battle and Intuitionism.

UNIVERSITY PARIS-IV (SORBONNE) (1996-2000)

PhD in History of Philosophy. Quelques paradoxes du non-être chez Aristote.

UNIVERSITY PARIS-I (SORBONNE) (1997-1998)

Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (Master) in Logic.

UNIVERSITY PARIS-IV (SORBONNE) (1995-1996)

Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (Master) in the History of Philosophy.

ATHENS UNIVERSITY (1991-1995)

Department of Philosophy – Pedagogic – Psychology
Domain: PHILOSOPHY

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

1996-1999: Graduate Scholar of the National Scholarship Institute of Greece (I.K.Y.).

2001: Scholar of the Special Account (Eidikós Logargiasmós) of the University of Athens.

2003: Postdoctoral Scholar of the I. F. Kostopoulos Foundation.

 

AWARDS

2001: Award of the European and Cultural Center of Delphi (Ε.κ.Π.Κ.Δ.), for the 2400th anniversary of Socrates’ death. Meno Today – Remembering Essence (O Ménon SímeraAnamníseis Ousías.

 

TEACHING

2001: Lectures at the Graduate Seminar in History of Philosophy, National Polytechnic School of Athens. “Aristotle’s argument in De Interpretatione 9”.

2001-2002: Co-teacher of the courses (i) “History of Logic” and (ii) “Elements of Logic and Set Theory”, University of Athens (Department of Methodology, History and Philosophy of Science).

2005-2007: Philosophy of Logic, University of Athens (Philosophical School).

2009-2010. Philosophy of Logic, University of Athens (Department of Methodology, History and Philosophy of Science).

2010-2011. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus. Ancient Philosophy and Philosophy of Logic.

2012-2015. Philosophy of Mathematics, University of Athens (Philosophical School).

2013-15. History of Philosophy, University of Athens (Philosophical School).

2018. Visiting Professor, University of Vienna. Ancient Logic.

2013-2021. Professor Consultant, Hellenic Open University. Ancient Philosophy and Science.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Sea-Battle and Intuitionism, revised and augmented version of my PhD thesis, Bern, 2010: https://baselbern.swissbib.ch/Record/354860925.

“La dunamis du Sophiste et sa critique aristotélicienne dans les Topiques”, Revue de Philosophie Ancienne XXII, no 2, 2004, pp. 1-18.

“Zeno of Elea”, in Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece, P. F. O’Grady (ed.), Ashgate, 2005, pp. 85-88.

“On the Notion ofProving its own Consistency”, in New Studies in Weak Arithmetics, Partick Cégielski et al. (ed.), CSLI, Stanford University Press, 2013, pp. 149-178.

“Intuitionistic Semantics for Fitch’s Paradox”, in Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science, D. Dieks (ed.), Springer, Synthese Library, 2013, pp. 29-39.

“A Refutation of the Church-Turing Thesis according to some Interpretation of what the Thesis says”, in Computing and Philosophy, (ed. Vincent C. Müller), Heidelberg, Springer (Synthese Library), 2015, pp. 45-62. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301266175_A_Refutation_of_the_Church-Turing_Thesis_According_to_Some_Interpretation_of_What_the_Thesis_Says

“A Counterexample to the Church-Turing Thesis as Standardly Interpreted”, Newsletter of the American Philosophical Association (Philosophy and Computers), 2018, 18/1, 24-27.
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/EADE8D52-8D02-4136-9A2A-729368501E43/ComputersV18n1.pdf

“Proof by Assumption of the Possible in Prior Analytics, 1.15; How Not to Blend Modal Frameworks” (with George Karamanolis), History and Philosophy of Logic, 2020, 41/3, 203-16

Information and contact

Research Centre for Greek Philosophy

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e-mail: dkapa@academyofathens.gr