Filimon Peonidis is professor of moral and political philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A graduate of the same university, he holds an M. Sc. from the LSE and a doctorate from the University of Crete. He is also the director of the Philosophy Lab: Texts and Interpretations. He had visiting and teaching appointments at various universities in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne, Antwerp, Hamburg, Berlin and Athens.  He has served as Chair of AUTH's School of Philosophy and Education and as a  member of AUTH's Ethics and Deontology of Research Committee. His primary research interests are in moral theory and applied ethics and, more recently, in political philosophy with emphasis on democratic theory and the history of democratic traditions, liberalism, and the philosophical understanding of free expression. He has authored or co-authored the following books: Morality and Lying (1994), John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism (2002), Autonomy and Sympathy: A Post-Kantian Moral Image  (2005), In Defense of the Right: Essays in Practical Philosophy (2007), Democracy as Popular Sovereignty (2013, enlarged Greek edition 2018),  Elements of Critical Argumentation (2014, 2022), (with Nicos Giannakopoulos) Athenian Demagogues: Debunking an Antidemocratic Stereotype (2018), Prolegomena to Political Philosophy (2020), (with Petros Stangos) The European Citizens' Assembly: A Proposal (2022), How Democratic Was the Greek War of Independence? (2022), Freedom of Expression: A Recalcitrant Value (2022) and Philosophical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (2024).

E-mail: peonidis@edlit.auth.gr ♦ ORCID iD:  0000-0002-0109-4729