Dr. Georgia Mouroutsou

Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy (HU)

Georgia-Mouroutsou

After finishing my studies of philosophy, psychology and pedagogics in Athens, I wrote my PhD in Tübingen on the Metaphor of Mixture in the Platonic Dialogues the Sophist and the Philebus. My supervisors were Prof. Dr. Thomas Alexander Szlezák and Prof. Dr. Anton Friedrich Koch. After my two-year-old academic stay at Cambridge University, which was funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, I am elaborating further on my monograph on chora (estimated completion in 2011) and investigating its reception in Middle Platonism in Berlin. My PhD has been published as the Vol. 28 of the International Plato Studies. The philosophical issue that has come to the fore since my PhD is the Aristotelian influence upon very important decisions in the immediate course of the history of philosophy. For now I focus on the reception of chora (n Middle Platonism).
 

General Information

Group

Post-doctoral Fellow

01.02.2010 - 30.09.2012
 

Research Field

Research Topics

 

Contact

Organisation / Department

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Excellence Cluster Topoi

Address

Hannoversche Straße 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

Email

 

Projects

research project


 

Activities

conference


talk

"Reading Plato Backwards: from Timaeus 52d to 48e"
part of the Conference Chora in Plato's Timaeus

 

Publications

 
In Topoi

2010Die Metapher der Mischung in den Platonischen Dialogen Sophistes und Philebos
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2010Die Frage nach der schlechten Seele in dem zehnten Buch von Nomoi: Versuch einer Entmythologisierung
Mouroutsou, Georgia
2010Eikon bei Platon: Metaphysik des Bildes
Mouroutsou, Georgia
 
further Publications

2010 Die Metapher der Mischung in den Platonischen Dialogen Sophistesund Philebos, in the Series of International Plato Society Vol. 28, Sankt Augustin 2010.
2010 Die Frage nach der schlechten Seele in dem zehnten Buch von Nomoi: Versuch einer Entmythologisierung, in: Platon über das Göttliche, D. Koch, I. Männlein-Robert, N. Weidtmann (eds.), Tübingen 2010.
2010 Eikon bei Platon: Metaphysik des Bildes, in: Das Bild als Denkfigur in der Philosophie, S. Neuber and R.Veressov (eds.), München 2010, pp. 33-49.
2007 Die Metapher der Mischung in den platonischen Dialogen Sophistesund Philebos, in: Prolegomena 1, Zagreb, Januar 2007 (summary of my PhD thesis, before the further elaboration)
2004 The concept of Philosophy in Plato. Beginning with the Dialogue the Sophist: dichos rheton of the philosophical nature, in: Conceptions of Philosophy: Ancient and Modern, Prof. K. Boudouris (ed.), Athens 2004, pp. 247-256.
2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 (forthcoming) Reviews: 1. Lloyd Gerson, Aristotle and other Platonists, New York 2005 in: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, Tübingen, 2009 (2), pp. 333-336.2. Th. A. Szlezák, Platon Lesen, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1993, in: Hypomnema 4, Athens 2006, pp. 355-368.3. Julius Stenzel, Studien zur Entwicklung der Platonischen Dialektik von Sokrates zu Aristoteles, Arete und Dihairesis, in: Studia Universitatis Babe-Bolyai Philosophia 50, 2 (2005), pp. 202-206.4. David Sedley, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity, Carifornia Press 2008 (in preparation; forthcoming in: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung)
Currently in progress:
  • Monograph on the Platonic Chora (expected completion: end of summer 2011)
  • Aristotelian Traces (?) in Alcinoic Physics
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education
Feb 2010 - Jan 2012 Post-Doc Fellow in Topoi, Humboldt University Berlin.
Feb 2008 - Jan 2010 Academic Scholar at University of Cambridge (Faculty of Classics, Prof. David Sedley) under the aegis of Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung. Post-Doc Projekt on the Chora against the background of two dualisms (forms-the Sensible, soul-body)
27. April 2007 Oral Examination for the PhD (Rigorosum): summa cum laude.
2000-2006 Further Studies of Philosophy and PhD (2002-2006) at the Faculty of Philosophy in Tübingen: The Metaphor of Mixture in the Platonic Dialogues the Sophist and the Philebus: magna cum laude.
1996-1999 Studies of Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Athens (degree with distinction)

Employment
SS 2004 - WS 2004/05 Prof. Dr. Th. A. Szlezák’s research associate for the project „Aristotle’s Metaphysics“.
Since Feb 2010 Post-Doc Fellowship in TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin. Project: „The Reception of the Platonic Chora in Middle Platonism“.

Teaching Activity
Plato’s Timaeus (SS 2010, HS Humboldt University Berlin)
The Later Plato: The Politicus (WS 2010/11, HS Humboldt University Berlin)

Fellowships and Distinctions
Distinction of the Greek „State Scholarships Foundation“ (I.K.Y.) at the beginning and the end of my study at the Philosophical Faculty of Athens.
3 1/2-year scholarship for PhD thesis in Philosophy („State Scholarships Foundation“, I.K.Y.), winter semester 2000/01- winter semester 2003/04.
Scholarship (“Internationales Zentrum für wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit”, Tübingen) for the academic visit at the Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb: 15 February- 15. March 2002.
Two-year scholarship for the completion of my PhD thesis in Philosophy from the Foundation “Micheli” (Philosophical Faculty in Athens): winter semester 2004/05- summer semester 2006.
Two-year research fellowship funded by „Fritz Thyssen Stiftung“ for the post-doc projekt „Die Platonische Chora: Die Genese des Raums vor dem Hintegrund zweier Arten des Dualismus“: February 2008-January 2010.
Post-doc Fellowship in TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin (Febr. 2010-Jan. 2012).