Author: Eleni Leontsini
Bio: Eleni Leontsini has been elected Lecturer in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology, School of Philosophy) of the University of Ioannina, and she is currently awaiting her official appointment by the Greek State. She is at present teaching at the Greek Civilization Undergraduate Programme of the Hellenic Open University as part-time academic staff. Under the supervision of Prof. Richard Stalley, she received her Ph.D. in Philosophy (2002) from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Glasgow where she also taught from 1998 to 2004. She has also taught at the University of St Andrews, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Athens, and the University of Peloponnese (2000-2010). She specialises in the history of philosophy, moral and political philosophy (ancient, modern and contemporary) and, in particular, Aristotle and neo-Aristotelianism. She also has a special research interest in the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and is currently completing a monograph on his appropriation of Aristotle. She is also working on a book on the relation between Aristotelian civic friendship and contemporary political theory. She has given papers in conferences and has published widely in journals and collected volumes. Her doctoral thesis was published by the Saripolos Library of the University of Athens (E. Leontsini, The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Liberal-Communitarian Debate, with a foreword by R. F. Stalley, S. Saripolos Library: Athens 2007).