George Terzis's interests include Greek philosophy, ethical theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of biology. Currently research focuses on vision-related creative insight. Signficant publications include:

• Information and the Biological Sciences, eds., George Terzis and Robert Arp, MIT Press, in progress.
• "Image and Ambiguity in Duncker's Candle Problem," under submission.
• "How Crosstalk Creates Vision-Related Eureka Moments," Philosophical Psychology, 14, (2001): 393-421.
• "A Developmental Interpretation of Plato's Defense of Morality," Philosophical Inquiry, 20, (1998): 36-48.
• "Homeostasis and the Mean in Aristotle's Ethics," Apeiron (Special Issue): Aristotle, Virtue and the Mean, 25 (1995): 175-89.
• "Human Flourishings: A Psychological Critique of Virtue Ethics," American Philosophical Quarterly, 31 (1994): 333-42.
• "An Objection to Kantian Ethical Rationalism," Philosophical Studies, 55 (1989): 35-49.
• "Darwall's Kantian Argument," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 18 (1988): 99-114 (with a reply by Darwall).