Aleksandra Rzepecka

Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Social Sciences, in the discipline of Management and Quality Science. A graduate of MA studies at the Military University of Land Forces. Since 2018, has been working at the University as an adjunct.  Deals with the issues of organizational culture, corporate social responsibility, image of the organization as well as professional career and competences.

Vladimir A. Stepanov

Dimitra Serakioti

Lectures at the Democritus University of Thrace, School of Educational Sciences. Her research interests include morphology, semantics, philosophy of language, discourse analysis and experimental linguistics.

Petros Stefaneas

Dr Petros Stefaneas is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include logic and formal methods for computer science and philosophy of computation.
 

Panayiotis Frangos

Panayiotis V. Frangos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1959. He received the Bachelor Degree from the NTUA, Greece, in 1983, and the Master’s and Ph. D. Degrees from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, in 1985 and 1986 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.  Since 1989, after his military service in Greece, he has been with the Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, first as a Lecturer (1989 - 92), and subsequently as an Assistant Professor (1992 - 96), Associate Professor (1996 - 2000), and Full Professor (2000 - today).

Sofia Almpani

Dr Sofia Almpani is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Applied Mathematics and Physics Science of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Sofia received her PhD titled “Argumentation and rule-based logic in mathematical proving and legal artificial intelligence applications” from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (NTUA), Bachelor Degrees from the Faculty of Education School of Primary Education (AUTH) and from the Department of Mathematics (UOA), and the Master Degree “Educational Leadership, Management and Emerging Technologies” (Marconi). Her research interests focus on argumentation, logic programming, AI, Robotics, and STEAM.

Antonis Kakas

Antonis C. Kakas is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London in 1984. His interest in Computing and AI started in 1989 within the group of Professor Kowalski. Since then his research has concentrated on computational logic in AI with particular interest in argumentation, abduction and induction and their application to machine learning and cognitive systems. Currently, he is working on the development of a new framework of Cognitive Programming that aims to offer an environment for developing Human-centric AI systems that can be naturally used by developers and human users at large. He was the National Contact Point for Cyprus in the flagship EU project on AI, AI4EU. He has recently co founded a start-up company in Paris, called Argument Theory, which offers solutions to real-life application decision taking problems based on argumentation technology.

Vladimir K. Shokhin

Vladimir K. Shokhin is the head of the philosophy of religion department in Institiute of Philosophy in Moscow. He published 15 books in Russian and numerous papers, along them in English and other languages. Ancient and medieval Indian philosophy is his basic area, his first dissertation (1981) dealt with the early Samkhya and Buddhism and he published numerous translations from Sanskrit and Pali originals. He also works on philosophical theology, and even a trilogy dealing with it was completed  in 2022. His other interests lie in the fields of axiology and practical philosophy. Comparative philosophy remains one of his favorite topics throughout all other studies.  



 

Dilipkumar Mohanta

Dilipkumar Mohanta (b.1959) is a Professor of Philosophy in the University of Calcutta (India). He is presently the Joint Secretary of Indian Philosophical Congress (Estd. 1925). He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kalyani, and also the founder Vice-Chancellor of the Sanskrit College and University. He is a former member of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Professor Mohanta is the recipient of number of awards for his academic contribution; such as, US Government State Scholar Award (2008) at the University of California (Santa Barbara), Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer (2011) at the University of Florida, William Paton Fellowship at the University of Birmingham (2015), IUC Associate at IIAS (Shimla, 2001-2003), Professor B. M. Barua Samman (award) in 2016, Jan Jacobsen prize (2016), Manjusree Samman (2022), Kamaladevi Smriti Samman (2022). Professor Mohanta’s research interest covers classical Indian and modern Indian Philosophy, Comparative Religion in general and Buddhist Philosophy in particular. He is the author of 15 books and 60 papers (in English & Bengali) published in journals in India and abroad. Cognitive Scepticism and Indian Philosophy, Studies in  Vaidalyasutra of Nagarjuna, Studies in Jayarasibhatta’s Critique of Knowing from Words, Advaita-Siddhanta-Sara-samgraha (Sanskrit text with Introduction in English), Collected Works of Brajendra Nath Seal  (ed.) are some of his important books in English. Mohanta also authored some books on Buddhist Philosophy, Advaita Vedanta Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion and Political Philosophy in Bengali. 

Raghunath Ghosh

Professor Raghunath Ghosh (b. 1950) is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of North Bengal, Dist. Darjeeling-734013, West Bengal (India). He is a former Dean of Faculty of Arts in the same University. He was awarded Cultural Exchange Fellowship under DAAD, Indo-Netherlands, Indo-French, Indo-finish, Dharmakãrti Foundation. He is also a former senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. His major area of research includes both classical and modern Indian Philosophy in general and Navya-Nyàya in particular. He has authored 20 books and 300 research papers published in different journals and anthologies in India and abroad.