Iakovos Vasiliou

Education:

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh - 1993 (Philosophy)

B.A., Cornell University - 1987 (Classics and Philosophy)

Areas of Expertise:

Most of Vasiliou's research has been on Plato and Aristotle, but it extends to broader questions in ethics, epistemology and political philosophy.

Books and Publications

"Nous and Its Objects in Aristotle." Proceedings for the Boston Area Colloquium in
Ancient Philosophy. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013

"Socratic Irony." The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates. Eds. Nick Smith and John Bussanich. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 20-34. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013

Editor, Moral Motivation. Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013

"From the Phaedo to the Republic: Plato's Tripartite Soul and the Possibility of
Non-Philosophical Virtue." Plato and the Divided Self. Eds. R. Barney, T. Brennan and C. Brittain. Cambridge University Press. 9-32. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

"Aristotle, Agents, and Actions." Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide. Ed. Jon Miller. Cambridge University Press. 170-90. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

Review of From Protagoras to Aristotle, by Heda Segvic. Ethics 120.2: 404-08. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010

"18 Lectures on Plato and Aristotle." The Bedside Baccalaureate. Ed. David Ruble. New York: Agincourt Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

Review of Plato, The Symposium. Ed. M.C. Howatson; translation ed. Frisbee C.C. Sheffield. Notre Dame Philosophical Review 7.10; http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16585. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009

Aiming at Virtue in Plato. Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008

Vasiliou, Iakovos and Jonathan Adler. "Inferring Character From Reasoning: The Example of Euthyphro." American Philosophical Quarterly 45.1: 43-56. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Virtue and Argument in Aristotle's Ethics." Moral Psychology: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities, Volume 94. Ed. S. Tenenbaum. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 35-76. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

Review of Happy Lives and the Highest Good, by Gabriel Richardson Lear. Journal of Philosophy CIV.5: 263-68. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007

"Reality, What Matters and the Matrix." Philosophers Explore the Matrix. Ed. C. Grau. Oxford University Press. 98-114. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005

"Commentary on Marcelo Boeri's 'Socrates, Aristotle, and the Stoics on the Apparent
and Real Good.'" Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy XX: 142-51. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

Review of Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, by Anthony Long. The Philosophical Review 113: 269-71. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2004

"Disputing Socratic Principles: Character and Argument in the 'Polus Episode' of the Gorgias." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 84.3: 245-72. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

"Socrates' Reverse Irony." The Classical Quarterly 52.1: 220-30. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

"Wittgenstein, Religious Belief and on Certainty." Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion. Eds. R. Arrington and M. Addis. Routledge. 29-50. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2001

Review of Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy, by Gareth Matthews. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.08.12, Aug. 9. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2000

"Conditional Irony in the Socratic Dialogues." The Classical Quarterly 49.2, December: 456-72. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999

"Socratic Principles, Socratic Knowledge." Philosophical Inquiry 21: 43-60. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999

Review of Aristotle on Perception, by Stephen Everson. The Philosophical Review 108: 282-85. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 1999

"Democritus." Companion to the Philosophers. Ed. R. Arrington. Basil Blackwell. 201-04. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Heraclitus." Companion to the Philosophers. Ed. R. Arrington. Basil Blackwell. 299-301. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Parmenides and Zeno." Companion to the Philosophers. Ed. R. Arrington. Basil Blackwell. 424-26. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Protagoras." Companion to the Philosophers. Ed. R. Arrington. Basil Blackwell. 451-53. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Pythagoras." Companion to the Philosophers. Ed. R. Arrington. Basil Blackwell. 457-59. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Xenophanes." Companion to the Philosophers. Ed. R. Arrington. Basil Blackwell. 553-55. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Athenodorus of Tarsus." Encyclopedia for Classical Philosophy. Ed. D. Zeyl. Greenwood Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1997

"Diogenes of Ptolemais." Encyclopedia for Classical Philosophy. Ed. D. Zeyl. Greenwood Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1997

"Eudromus." Encyclopedia for Classical Philosophy. Ed. D. Zeyl. Greenwood Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1997

"Panthoides." Encyclopedia for Classical Philosophy. Ed. D. Zeyl. Greenwood Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1997

"Zeno of Tarsus." Encyclopedia for Classical Philosophy. Ed. D. Zeyl. Greenwood Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1997

Review of The Morality of Happiness, by Julia Annas. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 79: 97-100. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 1997

"Perception, Knowledge and the Sceptic in Aristotle." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 14: 83-131. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996

"The Role of Good Upbringing in Aristotle's Ethics." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56: 771-97. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996

Review of Ethics With Aristotle, by Sarah Broadie. The European Legacy 1.7: 2125-27. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 1996

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Faculty Seminar, Mellon Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-07. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 2002-03. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"The Nature(s) of Theoretical Intellect in Aristotle's De Anima." University of Pittsburgh. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

Commentator on Evan Keeling's "Aristotle on the Infallibility of Proper-Object Perception: Metaphysics Gamma 5, 1010b1-1011a2." American Philosophical Association, Central Division. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

"Motives and Ends." Bovay Seminar in Engineering Ethics. Cornell University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Nous and Its Objects in Aristotle." Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Assumption College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Nous and Its Objects in Aristotle." Philosophy and Classics. University of Toronto. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Socrates and Eudaimonism." Department of Philosophy, Cornell University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Socrates, Virtue, and Eudaimonia." American Philosophical Association, Central Division. Chicago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"The Nature(s) of Theoretical Intellect in Aristotle." Ancient Philosophy Workshop. University of Oxford, United Kingdom. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"To Know You Is to Love You? Plato, Forms, and Moral Motivation." International Plato Society, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Aristotle, Agents, and Actions." University of Toronto. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Rethinking Platonic Dualism." Columbia University. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

Critic in "Author Meets Critics" session on Paula Gottlieb's The Virtues of Aristotle's Ethics. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Minneapolis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

Critic in Author Meets Critics session on Paula Gottlieb's The Virtues of Aristotle's Ethics. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Minneapolis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Aristotle, Agents, and Actions." Colloquium Series, CUNY Graduate Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Puzzles in the Apology and Crito." Philosophy Society, SUNY Purchase. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"To Know You Is to Love You: Plato, Forms, and Moral Motivation. Desiring the Good in Plato Conference. Columbia University. New York. (Paper read by another; sudden funeral prevented attendance.) (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010

Respondent, "Author Meets Critics" session on my Aiming at Virtue in Plato. Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Aristotle's Wisdoms." Wisdom in Ancient Thought Conference. Columbia University. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"Plato's Dualism." Philosophy Department, University of California, Irvine. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"Achieving an Immaterial Soul in Plato." New Jersey Regional Association for Philosophy. Paramus, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Achieving an Immaterial Soul in Plato." Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt, Germany. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"The Immateriality of Soul in Plato's Phaedo." Philosophy Department, Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

Session leader, Aristotle's De Anima, I.1, New York Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. New York University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Socrates, Virtue and Deliberation." Graduate Seminar on Socrates. New York University. Novebmer. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

"Non-philosophers in Plato's Republic." Graduate Seminar on Plato's Republic. Columbia University. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Public Moral Discourse in the Aftermath of September 11." Information, Security, Technology Seminar Series. Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Comments on Jonathan Lear's 'Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis.'" Plato and the Divided Self. University of Toronto. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

Plato's Symposium for the Literature Humanities Faculty Meeting, Columbia University, New York, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

"Aiming at Virtue in the Apology and Crito." Classics Colloquium Series. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Aiming at Virtue in the Republic." Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, St. George Campus. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Aiming at Virtue in the Republic." Philosophy Colloquium Series. Franklin and Marshall College. Lancaster, Pa., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Aiming at Virtue." Philosophy Colloquium Series. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics VII.1-3" session leader. New York Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. New York University. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

"Socratic Deliberation." Historical Studies Seminar Series. University of Toronto at Mississauga. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

Commentator on Marcelo Boeri's "Socrates, Aristotle, and the Stoics on the Apparent And Real Good." Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Boston College. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003

"Socrates' Decisions in the Here and Now." State University of New York, Albany. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002

"The Role of Argument in Aristotle's Ethics." Philosophy Discussion Group, Brooklyn College. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

Plato's Symposium for the Literature Humanities Faculty Meeting, Columbia University. New York, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002

"Plato's Gorgias at the New York Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy" session leader. New York University. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001

"Socratic Ironies, Socratic Method." Philosophy Society, Brooklyn College. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2001

"Disputing Socratic Principles." American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Berkeley, Calif., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1999

"Disputing Socratic Principles: Socrates' Arguments Against Polus." Georgia Philosophical Society. Emory University. Atlanta, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1999

Commentator on Gale Justin's "The Lysis and Irwin's Instrumentalism." American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Los Angeles, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

Commentator on May Sim's "Ethics and Community in Aristotle." American Philosophical Society Central Division Meeting. Pittsburgh, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1997

"Upbringing and the Moral Skeptic in Aristotle's Ethics." Philosophy Colloquium. University of New Hampshire. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1994

"Comment on Richard Kraut's Aristotle's Egalitarianism." Cornell Philosophy Discussion Club, Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1993

Professional Leadership

Book review editor, Philosophical Inquiry, 2003-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008

Member, Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 2008-09. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008

Secretary, New York Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 2003-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008