Christos Kalpakidis
My work engages with central questions in contemporary philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of mind, phenomenology, existentialism, and ontology. I hold a PhD (Summa cum laude) from the University of Bonn and am currently Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Crete and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Athens.
I am also interested in the intersections of existentialism with Marxism and contemporary debates in cognitive science and AI.
Please feel free to contact me or learn more about my research and teaching.
Phenomenology
Existentialism
Philosophy of Mind
Ontology
Philosophy of Action
Sartre
Research
My research engages primarily with Sartre's early philosophy — Being and Nothingness, the Transcendence of the Ego, and his early phenomenological writings — focusing on the relationship between freedom, realism, and consciousness. I situate this work within broader debates in post-Kantian philosophy, including German Idealism, Wittgenstein, and contemporary philosophy of mind.
Publications
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2026
The Argument from Facticity: Reassessing Realism in Sartre's Early Philosophy
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2026
Subjectivation and Power: Revisiting Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialist-Marxism in the Age of AI
In: Humanism in the Age of AI (ed. Ilievska), Transcript Verlag · ISBN: 978-3-8394-3883-1
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2025
Freedom and Truth: Sartre as a Reader of Descartes' Meditations
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2024
Realism and Freedom in Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Schelling's Freiheitsschrift
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2024
Jenseits von Immunität und Transparenz: Sartre und Wittgenstein über Selbstbewusstsein und Wissen
In: Subjektivität revisited (hg. Bonnemann and Betschart), Schwabe Verlag, 29–48
Forthcoming & In Preparation
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Between Marx and Fourier: Walter Benjamin and the Utopian Reconfiguration of History forthcoming 2026
In: Utopia, Dystopia, Retrotopia (ed. Kuhar), Anthropos
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Realismus, Wahrnehmung und Wissen: Jean-Paul Sartres situierter Infallibilismus forthcoming 2026
Philosophisches Jahrbuch, Heft II
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Realism and Illusionism about Consciousness in the Introduction to Sartre's Being and Nothingness under review
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
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Freiheit und Realismus im frühen Werk von Jean-Paul Sartre in preparation
Klostermann
Contact
I welcome inquiries about my research, potential collaborations, or academic matters. Please write to me at either of the addresses below.