Dr. Andreas Anagnostopoulos
Akademischer Rat
Chair of Ancient Philosophy
Office hours:
Wednesdays 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Personal information
Andreas Anagnostopoulos received his B.A. (Philosophy, Mathematics) and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from the University of California, Berkeley and was a postdoc in Berlin (Topoi; HU-Berlin) before coming to Munich.
Research interests
His research interests are in ancient metaphysics, natural science and psychology, especially in Aristotle. He also maintains broad interests in contemporary analytic philosophy. He is currently working primarily on Aristotle's concept of matter.
Selected publications
- “Change in Aristotle’s Physics 3,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 40 (2010): 33-79.
- “Senses of Dunamis and the Structure of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Θ,” Phronesis 56.4 (2011): 388-425.
- “Aristotle’s Parmenidean Dilemma,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 95.3 (2013): 245-274.
- “Change, Activity and the Incomplete in Aristotle,” Phronesis 62.2 (2017): 170-209.
- “Physics I 6: A Third and Underlying Principle,” Proceedings of the 2014 Symposium Aristotelicum: Physics I, eds. Ierodiakonou, Kalligas and Karasmanis. Oxford (2019): 190-228.
- “Mixture, Generation and the first Aporia of GC I.10,” Phronesis 66.2 (2021): 139-177.
- “GC II.7,” in Aristotle: De Generatione et Corruptione Book II, eds. Panos Dimas, Andrea Falcon and Sean Kelsey. Cambridge (2022): 151-177.
- “Aristotle’s First Moves Regarding Perception: A Reading of (most of) De Anima 2.5,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 105 (2023): 68-117.