Zeimbekis John – Department of Philosophy

Zeimbekis John
Associate Professor
zeimbekis@upatras.gr

Education

Admission to the School of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, 1984.
Β.Α. (Hons.), Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, 1988.
PhD., Philosophy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2000.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 2001.

Selected publications

Zeimbekis, J., “Malleability or cognitive effects on recognition?”, book symposium on Dustin Stokes, Thinking and Perceiving, Brains Blog, Sept. 2021.
Casati, R., Kulvicki, J. and Zeimbekis, J. “Borgesian maps”, Analytic Philosophy, 2020. doi:10.1111/phib.12204.
Zeimbekis, J., “Pictorial experience and perceptual activity”, in J. Pelletier and A. Voltolini, Pictorial Experience, New York: Routledge, Routledge Research in Aesthetics, 2019; pp. 93-124.
Zeimbekis, J., “La Beauté”, Petit Traité des Valeurs, Ed. J. Deonna and E. Tieffenbach, Paris: Ithaque, Collection Science et Métaphysique, 2018; pp. 50-60.
Zeimbekis, J., “Perceiving facial emotions: late visual effects?”, extended invited comment on D. E. Gatzia, “Cognitive penetration and top-down modulation in visual perception”, Minds Online, Sept. 2016.
Zeimbekis, J. and Raftopoulos, A., The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: New Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2015.
Zeimbekis, J., “Seeing, visualizing and believing”, in Zeimbekis and Raftopoulos, The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception, Oxford University Press, 2015; pp. 298-327.
Raftopoulos, A. and Zeimbekis, J., “Cognitive Penetrability: An Overview”, in The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception, Oxford University Press, 2015; pp. 1-56.
Zeimbekis, J., “Why digital pictures are not notational representations”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73.4, 2015: pp. 449-453.
Zeimbekis, J., “Color and cognitive penetrability“, Philosophical Studies 165.1, 2013: 167-175
«Η δείξη τύπων στην αντίληψη και στην πράξη», Δευκαλίων 29/1-2, 2012: 167-175.
Ζεϊμπέκης, Ι., “Γεγονότα και αξίες στην αισθητική”, πρακτικά του διεθνούς συνεδρίου Κοσμάς Ψυχοπαίδης, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, επιμ. Β. Τσινόρεμα, υπό έκδοση.
Zeimbekis, J., “Digital pictures, sampling, and vagueness: the ontology of digital pictures”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70.1, 2012: 43-53. (Ηλ. έκδοση εδώ.)
Zeimbekis, J., “Thought experiments and mental simulations”, in K. Ierodiakonou & S. Roux, Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts, Leiden: Brill. 193-215. (Εκδοχή προ διορθώσεων εδώ.)
Zeimbekis, J., “Pictures and singular thought”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 68.1, 2010: 11-21. (Ηλ. έκδ.)
Ζεϊμπέκης, Ι., «Ο αντιληπτικός ρεαλισμός και η εξαγωγή αντιληπτικών ερμηνειών», Νόησις 6, 2010: 117-125 (ειδικό τεύχος αφιερωμένο στη γνωσιακή διαπερατότητα της αντίληψης, επιμ. Κ. Παγωνδιώτης και Β. Κιντή).
Zeimbekis, J., “Phenomenal and objective size”, Noûs 43.2, 2009: 346-362. (Ηλ. έκδ. εδώ· εκδοχή προ διορθώσεων εδώ.)
Zeimbekis, J., Qu’est-ce qu’un jugement esthétique?, Παρίσι, Vrin, 2006 (κεφάλαια 1 & 2 εδώ).
Dorsch, F., Stejskal, J., and Zeimbekis, J., Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 3, 2011.
Ζεϊμπέκης, Ι., «Μίμηση και θεωρία της προσομοίωσης», Χρονικά Αισθητικής 45, 2009: 291-307.
Zeimbekis, J., “Le statut épistémique des photographies”, inS. Darsel & R. Pouivet, Ce que l’art nous apprend, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. 127-139.
Zeimbekis, J., “Art, representation et fiction: un état des lieux”, Critique 720, 2007: 268-281.
Zeimbekis, J., Dictionnaire d’Esthétique, Paris: Armand Colin, 2007. Λήμματα“Représentation”, “Référence”, “Attitude esthétique”, “Jugement esthétique”, “Conduite esthétique”, “Satisfaction esthétique”.
Ζεϊμπέκης, Ι., “Υπάρχουν αισθητικές αξίες;”, Δευκαλίων 25.1, 2007: 79-95.
Zeimbekis, J., “Qu’est-ce que l’esthétique analytique?”, in M. Ouelbani, La philosophie analytique dans tous ses états, Presses Universitaires de Tunis, 2007. 43-58.
Zeimbekis, J., “Propositional attitudes in fiction”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 44.3, 2004: 261-276. (Ηλ. έκδ.)
Zeimbekis, J., “Propriétés esthétiques et évaluation”, Revue Francophone d’Esthétique, 2003.1: 25-47.
Zeimbekis, J., Approches du problème du sens en esthétique, διδακτορική διατριβή, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Παρίσι, 2000.

Under evaluation

Zeimbekis, J., “Nonconceptual modes of presentation”
Zeimbekis, J., Pictures, Perception and Meaning.
Zeimbekis, J., “Memory, perception and non-inferential warrant”
Zeimbekis, J., “Indiscriminability, identity, and soritic paradoxes”

Other publications (selection)

«Από τον μύθο στο λόγο», Βήμα Ιδεών, 07 Μαϊου 2010.
«Η έννοια της αυθεντικότητας», Cogitο 7, 2008.
Κριτική μελέτη του Zeimbekis, J. Revue critique de J. Morizot, Qu’est-ce qu’une image?, Revue Francophone d’Esthétique 4, 2007: 132-134.
“Replicative forgery”, πρακτικά του διεθνούς συνεδρίου Fake: why does it matter?, ENS Paris, Archives des Ateliers Art et Cognition, 2004.

Research interests

Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
Especially Metaphysics of qualities; Vagueness; Contents of perception; Reference (mental and linguistic); Ontology and psychology of fiction; Depiction; Metaphysics and epistemology of value.

Funded Research Projects

Fulbright Greece research scholar 2016.
Chercheur délégué au CNRS, 24-month research grant from the French National Research Foundation (CNRS), 2011-2013 (interrupted in 2012 to take up my current position).
Coordinator 50%, Regional Research Program (Cluster 14 Rhône-Alpes, France) “Reference, concepts and cognition”. Partners: Laboratoire Psychologie et Neurocognition, University of Grenoble; Centre PLC, University of Grenoble; Consciousness and Self-Conciousness Research Centre, University of Warwick. 2009-2012.
Researcher, Regional Research Program (Cluster 14 Rhône-Alpes, France)“Philosophie et Sciences Cognitives” (University of Lyon, University of Grenoble, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon).2002-2006.
Congé de recherche et reconversion thématique, University of Grenoble, 6 months, 2010(competitive research grant).
Crédit temps recherche,University of Grenoble, 6 months, 2004(competitive research grant).
Post-doctoral researcher (12 months) at the University of PennsylvaniaHumanities Forum, 2000-2001.

Academic Distinctions

Visiting Professor, Institut Jean Nicod, Centre National de la Recherhce Scientifique and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Spring 2018.
Visiting scholar, Department of Philosophy, New York University (Spring Term 2016)
Invited researcher, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, 12 months (2011-2012).
Andrew F. Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow in philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001.
Treasurer of the European Society for Aesthetics, 2012-2018.