Marilù Papandreou
@marilupapandreou.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴 and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 🇩🇪
“Aristotle’s Ontology of Artefacts” (CUP, 2023)
“Aristotle’s Ontology of Artefacts” (CUP, 2023)
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Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
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It appears that my book ‘Aristotle’s Ontology of Artefacts’ is now officially published! 🥳🤩
As one of my dear colleagues said, I now “should at least make a chair out of it.”
As one of my dear colleagues said, I now “should at least make a chair out of it.”
Hiking in October around Bergen is just phenomenal.
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hiking in October around Bergen is just phenomenal.
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Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:
September 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:
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Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.
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Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy
"Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...
Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.
Marilù Papandreou, Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-Human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators - PhilPapers
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October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.
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So where can you go teach where students are told not to use genAI? It's for a friend
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
So where can you go teach where students are told not to use genAI? It's for a friend
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"Anyone who works in manuscript studies or philology knows that these are thoroughly digital disciplines. ... Accusations of technophobia ... would therefore be completely inappropriate. It is precisely our technical literacy ... that must make us critical."
@dehypotheses.bsky.social
@dehypotheses.bsky.social
Leaving Academia.edu: ‘AI’ and Information Loss
1. Yesterday I deleted my Academia.edu account. This has a direct impact on my work here. I would like to reflect on this in this post. But first things first: What happened? Already back in May, I no...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Anyone who works in manuscript studies or philology knows that these are thoroughly digital disciplines. ... Accusations of technophobia ... would therefore be completely inappropriate. It is precisely our technical literacy ... that must make us critical."
@dehypotheses.bsky.social
@dehypotheses.bsky.social
Aristotle, Historia Animalium IX.48 on the case of dolphins discussed by @susanamonso.com in her “Playing Possum” as an instance of animal care behaviors towards individuals in distress.
September 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Aristotle, Historia Animalium IX.48 on the case of dolphins discussed by @susanamonso.com in her “Playing Possum” as an instance of animal care behaviors towards individuals in distress.
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I'm always trying to come up with child friendly insults for Loki to use and I think "You massive landlord" is a winner.
September 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I'm always trying to come up with child friendly insults for Loki to use and I think "You massive landlord" is a winner.
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Amazing photo of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open by Ray Giubilo
August 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Amazing photo of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open by Ray Giubilo
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New article (open access!) out in Synthese by @marilupapandreou.bsky.social - arguing for a new Aristotelian approach to artifacts, esp. in the domain of natural philosopher instead of the metaphysician. Looks very good: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Artworks, technical artefacts, and a few other things: a fresh Aristotelian approach - Synthese
I advance an Aristotelian approach by which we shall find a unified account of technical artefacts and artworks. The unification is conceptually available to Aristotle not because he does not have a s...
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July 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
New article (open access!) out in Synthese by @marilupapandreou.bsky.social - arguing for a new Aristotelian approach to artifacts, esp. in the domain of natural philosopher instead of the metaphysician. Looks very good: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I am very pleased that my paper “Artworks, Technical Artefacts, and a Few Other Things: A Fresh Aristotelian Approach” is now published in Synthese! This is my first publication outside ancient philosophy or history of philosophy, so I am particularly satisfied. And it’s Open Access.
Artworks, technical artefacts, and a few other things: a fresh Aristotelian approach - Synthese
I advance an Aristotelian approach by which we shall find a unified account of technical artefacts and artworks. The unification is conceptually available to Aristotle not because he does not have a s...
link.springer.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I am very pleased that my paper “Artworks, Technical Artefacts, and a Few Other Things: A Fresh Aristotelian Approach” is now published in Synthese! This is my first publication outside ancient philosophy or history of philosophy, so I am particularly satisfied. And it’s Open Access.
More on Greed.
Next week in Bergen!
Next week in Bergen!
June 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
More on Greed.
Next week in Bergen!
Next week in Bergen!
Ancient philosophy people are so great at labels.
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ancient philosophy people are so great at labels.
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Seeking advice from colleagues and friends #classicssky, #ancientsky: the press that has recently published by book is now asking me to sign a AI addendum that would allow them to include the volume in future AI licensing deals. 1/2
June 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Seeking advice from colleagues and friends #classicssky, #ancientsky: the press that has recently published by book is now asking me to sign a AI addendum that would allow them to include the volume in future AI licensing deals. 1/2
There is also a poster!
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
There is also a poster!
The question is “why?” but the answer is “time to leave”.
June 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The question is “why?” but the answer is “time to leave”.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
As a historian of ancient philosophy, I am very pleased and a little proud to speak at a Philosophy of Technology workshop!
www.uib.no/en/fof/17810...
www.uib.no/en/fof/17810...
New Directions in Philosophy of Technology
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May 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
As a historian of ancient philosophy, I am very pleased and a little proud to speak at a Philosophy of Technology workshop!
www.uib.no/en/fof/17810...
www.uib.no/en/fof/17810...
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You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.
May 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.
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Nobody told me that once you publish a book, you just want to publish another book.
April 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Nobody told me that once you publish a book, you just want to publish another book.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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New issue of The Monist Vol. 108, No. 2 (2025) academic.oup.com/monist/issue... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social The Ethics of Partiality: Ancient and Modern Perspectives.
Volume 108 Issue 2 | The Monist | Oxford Academic
One of the oldest and most important journals in philosophy. Publishes quarterly thematic issues on particular philosophical topics which are edited by leading philosophers in the corresponding fields...
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April 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of The Monist Vol. 108, No. 2 (2025) academic.oup.com/monist/issue... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social The Ethics of Partiality: Ancient and Modern Perspectives.
Villa di Livia’s wonderful frescoes of garden views.
April 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Villa di Livia’s wonderful frescoes of garden views.
“Know thyself”, Terme di Diocleziano
April 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Know thyself”, Terme di Diocleziano
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I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...
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The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish
YouTube video by Helen De Cruz
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March 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...