Aristides Baltas
| Aristides Baltas | |
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| Αριστείδης Μπαλτάς | |
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| Minister of Culture and Sports | |
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Assumed office 23 September 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| Preceded by | Frosso Kiaou as Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs |
| Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs | |
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In office 27 January – 28 August 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| Preceded by |
Andreas Loverdos as Minister of Education and Religious Affairs Konstantinos Tasoulas as Minister of Culture and Sport |
| Succeeded by | Frosso Kiaou |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 February 1943 Corfu, Greece |
| Political party | Coalition of the Radical Left |
| Alma mater |
National Technical University of Athens University of Paris XI |
| Profession | Philosopher of science |
Aristides Baltas (Greek: Αριστείδης Μπαλτάς; born 9 February 1943) is a philosopher of science and physicist who served as the Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece and as the Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras from 27 January 2015 to 4 November 2016.
He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science at the National Technical University of Athens and President of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute. In the Greek legislative election, September 2015, he was elected MP for the Attica constituency with Syriza.
Baltas trained in electrical and mechanical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) from 1962 to 1967 before going on to complete a doctorate in theoretical physics under François Lurçat at University of Paris XI in 1971. His thesis title was La Neutrino-Production des Résonances Baryoniques dans le Modèle des Quarks ("Neutrino Production of Baryonic Resonances in the Quark Model"). In 1982, he returned to NTUA to become a lecturer at the Department of Physics. From 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, a capacity he later resumed in 2005–6. He was appointed assistant professor of philosophy and methodology of physics at NTUA in 1984, then associate professor of the philosophy of science in 1992 and professor in 2002.
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