EVGENIA MYLONAKI

Assistant Professor

Ethics

Division: Philosophy and Theory of Science and Technology

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E-mail: emylonaki[at]phs.uoa[dot]gr

She teaches philosophy at the University of Athens in Greece. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, where she worked on practical conflict and rationality. Her later work is in ethics and the philosophy of action, moral psychology and practical reason, and has two strands. In one she argues that our active and rational nature is not intelligible apart from our moral nature. In the other she develops an account of our moral nature as an openness to the other and to the world, drawing on Murdoch's philosophy of attention and on the neo-Aristotelian tradition of virtue.
 

She is currently writing Moral Growth: Disruption, Attention and Virtue(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), in which she argues that truth becomes available to us in being transformed by experience rather than in adjusting our judgements in its light, and that refusing to be so changed by another is a form of epistemic injustice. 

With Matthew Boyle she co-edited Reason in Nature (Harvard University Press, 2022), essays in honour of John McDowell. With Constantine Sandis she translated Anscombe's Intention into Greek (Crete University Press) and co-edits Bloomsbury's Why Philosophy Matters series.
 

She has a special philosophical interest in the collapse of ways of living, in plant and animal life, and in the arts, especially film, photography and the novel.