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Dr. Stanley Sfekas, professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Indianapolis/Athens Campus was born in the United States. After receiving his B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Maryland, he went on to earn both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from New York University. His doctoral dissertation is titled “The Problem of Individuation in Aristotelian Metaphysics”. Dr. Sfekas has taught in various institutions of higher education including Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, The New York Institute of Technology, George Washington University in Washington D.C., and the American College of Southeastern Europe. Dr Sfekas has also published scholarly articles and books and has also been a critic for the American Philosophical Association and several international journals. He has been the book critic for the international journal, Philosophical Inquiry. He has also been the educational advisor to the Fulbright Foundation in Greece. As a public lecturer in the Athenian academic community, Dr. Sfekas has delivered over 150 public lectures since 1986 and frequently appeared on Greek television as an academic spokesman. Apart from his scholarly publications, he has also translated, between 1995 and the present, the scripts of seven historical films and 35 archaeological documentaries. He was also the philosophical consultant to the various productions. Dr. Sfekas appeared in all 12 televised episodes of the documentary “From Aristotle to Hawking”, a Pissanos Production, speaking on Aristotle and Ancient Greek Cosmology. The series that has been translated and distributed globally was nominated by members of the Academy of Athens for the 2006 Templeton Prize. Dr. Sfekas is the translator of the series from the Greek to the English language.

PUBLIC LECTURES: 1972 (December) “On the Route of Parmenides: An Examination of Negative Speculative Predication”. Paper read before Brooklyn College Philosophy Association. 1974 (April)            “Speech Acts and Communicative Processes”. Paper read before Long Island Philosophical Association, Queens College, C.U.N.Y. 1986-1994              Thirty Public Lectures delivered in Athens, Greece at the College of Southeastern Europe. 1994 (December)  Public Lecture in Philosophy delivered at Foreign Press Association, Athens, Greece. 1995 (April)            Public Lecture on “ Philosophy of Communication” presented at The European University, Athens, Greece. 1996                       Lectured on Greek Philosophy in a video produced by Sky TV                                London,(Rupert Murdock productions) and  shown on                                 Global Satellite TV in the Fall of 1996. 1997                       7 public lectures for UIA: 1) Existentialism and Literature                                2) German Idealism and the English Romantic Movement 3) Classical Literary Criticism                                 4)  Hegel’s  Phenomenology of Spirit 5) Nietzche and the Death of God                                 6)  Sartre:  Anguish, Abandonment, Anxiety 7) Bergson’s Theory of Time Fall 1997                 1) Yeats: A Vision 2) Dostoyevski: Prophet of the 20th Century                                3)  Retracing the Steps of Alexander the Great: A personal Odyssey. Held at public forum “Athens Portico of books’. 4) Rabindranath Tagore: The Human Will and Social Degradation. Spring 1998:          1) The Philosophical  Impact on Classical Literature Theory Lecture I: PLATO Lecture II: ARISTOTLE 2)Philosophical Idealism and the English Romantic Poets.	                  3)Theodore Adorno: Negative Dialectics and the Problem of Culture. 4) Bertrand Russell: Theory of Memory.                                 5) John Searle: Do Computers Think? 6) Foucault: Deconstruction of the Humanist Imagination.    7) Memory: A Philosophical Perspective Fall 1998:                1)Derrida: Apocalypse Without End.                                  2)Bergson: “La Duree” and the Stream-of Consciousness. 3)John Paul Sartre: Anguish, Abandonment, Absurdity                              4)Albert Camus: Humanism and Rebellion Spring 1999:        1)Kafka: The Theology of Despair                               2)Bergson and the Psychological Novel. 3)Eastern Thought and Culture Series:                                  Lecture I: Oriental Religions and Philosophies                                   Lecture II: Buddhism as Psychotherapy                                   Lecture III: Chinese Philosophy: Conforming to the Way Fall 1999:               1)Hegel: The philosophy of History 2)Heidegger: “Angst” and Death Spring 2000:         1) The Concept of Poetry in the English Romantic Movement 2)Jung: Archetypes and Literature                               3)Existentialist Theology 4)Shelley’s Vision of the Millennium 5) Aristotle’s Concept of Women Spring 2001           1) Aristotle’s Poetics                                 2) Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Fall 2001:                1) Kazantzakis: Zorba and Dionysus                                  2) Kafka: Prophet of Despair Fall 2002:               UIA Conference at Stoa tou Vivliou on Mysticism and Literature : Paper delivered on Rabindranath Tagore: Mysticism and Reform Fall 2003:                UIA Conference on Ontology and Literature at Cyprus Cultural Center; paper delivered: Ontology: From Parmenides to                                 Heidegger. 2004: Paper presented to Byron Society: The Byronic hero: Man and Superman. Kifissia, Greece Guest Speaker at First World Olympic Congress in Philosophy at Spetses, Greece. Paper presented: “Aristotle’s Principle of Individuation”. Published in Proceedings.

UIA Third Annual Conference: Reality Revisited: Literature, Communication, Aesthetics at the Crossroads at Cyprus Cultural Center; Paper presented: Jacque Derrida: Apocalypse without End. (Keynote Speaker).

2005: Paper presented to the 17th International Conference in Philosophy at Samos, Greece: Postmodern Culture: The Death of the Humanist Imagination. Published in ICOP Proceedings.

UIA Fourth Annual Conference: Dissolvance: Constructing Literature, Culture and Communication of the Future through Imagination; paper presented: The Death of the Humanist Imagination; (keynote speaker).

PUBLICATIONS:

1968                  Sfekas. S. Et al., U.S. Army Area Handbook on Greece (CLASSIFIED                             DOCUMENT). United States Department of Defense. Author of three Chapters: “ Language and Communication”(Linguistic analysis of                             Development of Attic and Koine dialects into Puristic and Demotic                              Greek); “Artistic and Intellectual Expression”; “Education”. 1979                   “ The Problem of Individuation in Aristotelian Metaphysics”, Ph.D.                             Dissertation. New York University: University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich, U.S.A. 1986                    “Aristotle’s Principle of Individuation” published in APEIRON, Monash University, Australia. 1990                     “Aristotle on Individuation” published in Southeastern Review, Athens, Greece. 1990                     Solicited Book Review for the American Philosophical Association Published in the APA Newsletter on Computer Use, Law, Medicine, Teaching. Volume 89:3, “ Of The Wake of Imagination” by Richard Kearney, University of Minnesota Press,1989. 1991                     “Ousia, Substratum, and Matter”, published in Philosophical Inquiry: International Quarterly, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 1992                    Book Review for Philosophical Inquiry: International Quarterly of                             The End of Life: The Case for Euthanasia, by J. Rachels, Oxford University Press,1989. 1992-1994          Book Review Editor for Philosophical Inquiry: International quarterly. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 1994                   Official Translator and Philosophical Consultant of Screenplay for film and international television series: ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE starring Oliver Reed, produced by P. Pissanos Co. World Premiere: Nov.8, 1997, London Film Festival. 1995                   Adaptation of Screenplay (Greek- English) and Philosophical Consultant for film and television series: The Gods of Olympus, produced by P.Pissanos Co. 1996                   Adaptation of Screenplay (Greek-English) and Philosophical Consultant for film and television series: DEUCALION’S FLOOD, a Pissanos production. 1996                  “ Aristotle’s Principle of Individuation”, published in Deucalion, Edited by A. Kitsopoulos. 1997                   Adaptation of Screenplay and Philosophical Consultant for forthcoming film and television series: ALEXANDER THE GREAT, a Pissanos production. 1997                   Orpheus and Eurydice by Stanley Sfekas, a  book adapted from the film starring Oliver Reed. 1998-1999         Adaptation of Narrative (Greek-English) and Philosophical Consultant for a series of archaeological documentaries on Greece for cinematic and television historical productions referred to below under the auspices of the European Union Cultural Commission. 1) 	THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS 2) 	THE PARTHENON 3) 	THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM 4) 	THE ANCIENT AGORA 5) 	THE ROMAN AGORA 6) 	THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON 7) 	THE ISLE OF AEGINA 8) 	THE PARTHENON MARBLES 9) 	THE FIREWALKERS 10) 	 EPIDAURUS 11) 	 THE TOMB OF AGAMMEMNON 12) 	 VISITING CORINTH 13) 	 ANCIENT OLYMPIA 14) 	 THE ORACLE AT DELPHI 15) 	 THE DELPHI MUSEUM 16) 	 MOUNT OLYMPUS 17) 	 A WALKING TOUR OF THE PLAKA 2000                       18) EARLY GREEK COSMOLOGY 2001                       19) FROM ARISTOTLE TO HAWKING 2002                        20) EARLY GREEK MATHEMATICS 2003                      21) ALEXANDER THE GREAT                               22) OLYMPIAD: 448 B.C. 2004                       Articles in periodical Business Partner, published by the American- Hellenic Chamber of Commerce: 1) Ethical Guidelines                                                                                      2) Corporate Responsibility 2004	Translation of cosmological work «Το Επόμενο Βήμα  της Δημιουργίας» by Ioannis Tsatsaris; Epistos Publishing Company:  The Next Step of Creation. (Greek to English). Submitted to Vantage Press. 2004                       Translation of “Η Συλλογή του Πορταλάκη” by George Armaos. (Greek to English). (The Portalakis Collection). 2005-2006       Translation of Documentary Television Series: From Aristotle to                                   Hawking; to be released Fall 2006; 12  episodes of 30 minutes. 2006                Translation of Book version of From Aristotle to Hawking. Interviewed on Aristotelian Cosmology in Documentary Series: From Aristotle to Hawking In 12 episodes.