Stelios Virvidakis was born in Athens in 1955.  He studied philosophy at the University of Athens (BA), at the University of Paris I / Sorbonne - Panthéon (Maîtrise, DEA) and at Princeton University (Ph.D.) He was awarded his doctoral degree in 1984 and the topic of his dissertation was Transcendental Arguments, Transcendental Idealism and Scepticism.  He has taught philosophy, at the American College of Greece (1986-1990), where he also served as the Director of the Humanities Area, at the Technical University of Crete (Spring 1988), at the University of Crete (Fall 1988), at the University of Thessaloniki (1991 - 1994), at the University of Rennes I (January 2001), at the University of Cyprus (Fall 2005), and at the University of Athens (1994 -  ), where he currently holds a position of Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science. 

He has participated in many international conferences and given lectures at various universities, in Europe, the U.S.A. and Japan, and has published a book in metaethics (La robustesse du bien, Nîmes: Jacqueline Chambon, 1996 – Greek revised edition, 2009), an introductory textbook of philosophy for Greek highschools and several articles in Greek, in French and in English, in scholarly journals, in conference proceedings, in philosophical dictionaries and encyclopaedias, mainly in the areas of ethics, epistemology and the history of philosophy.  He is a member of many philosophical societies, of the Steering Committee of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Philosophiques (FISP) and of the European Cultural Parliament. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government.  His current research interests include issues in epistemology, metaphilosophy, metaethics and the philosophy of literature.