Filimon Peonidis
Filimon Peonidis (Φιλήμων Παιονίδης) is professor of moral and political philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A graduate of the same university, he holds an M. Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate from the University of Crete. Before joining AUTH’s philosophy faculty in 1997 he held various teaching positions at tertiary education institutions in Thessaloniki, Florina and Athens. In 1999 he was a research associate of the National Council for Radio and Television. He had visiting appointments at various universities in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne and Antwerp. Ηe has taught at the University of Hamburg, FU in Berlin and the University of Athens. He has served as Head of AUTH's School of Philosophy and Education and as a member of AUTH's Ethics and Deontology of Research Committee. His primary research interests are in moral philosophy with emphasis on Mill, Kant and applied ethics and, more recently, in political philosophy with emphasis on democratic theory and history, liberalism, and the philosophical foundations of free expression. 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 Defense of the Right: Essays in Practical Philosophy (2007), Democracy as Popular Sovereignty (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) and How Democratic Was the Greek war of Independence? (2022), Freedom of Expression: A Recalcitrant Value (2022) and Philosophical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (2024). He is also the editor (or co-editor) of five collective volumes and the author of more than seventy articles, book chapters and entries in reference works.
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