Constantine Sandis
{{Short description|British philosopher}}
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Constantine Sandis {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA}} ({{langx|el|Κωνσταντίνος Σάνδης}}; born 1 October 1976) is a Greek and British philosopher and entrepreneur. Having worked on philosophy of action, moral psychology, David Hume, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, in 2013 he became Professor of Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. He is currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and co-founding Director (together with CEO Louise Chapman, whom he is married to) of the author services firm Lex Academic. {{Cite web | url=https://www.lexacademic.com/team/
|title = Lex Academic| date=27 September 2021 }}
Biography
Sandis read Literae Humaniores at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, where he was taught by Gabriele Taylor, Roger Crisp, Alison Denham, and A.C. Grayling, as well as Peter Hacker at St John's College, Oxford, Katherine Morris at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Hugh Rice at Christ Church, Oxford. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading (2005), under the supervision of Jonathan Dancy.{{cite web |url=http://theoxfordphilosopher.com/2015/07/29/the-oxford-philosopher-speaks-to-constantine-sandis/ |title=The Oxford Philosopher Speaks to… Constantine Sandis « the Oxford Philosopher |accessdate=2015-08-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730072519/http://theoxfordphilosopher.com/2015/07/29/the-oxford-philosopher-speaks-to-constantine-sandis/ |archivedate=2015-07-30 }} Having worked at Oxford Brookes University from 2005 to 2015, he subsequently moved to Hertfordshire, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy..{{cite web |url=http://www.editor.net/BWS/committee.html |title=British Wittgenstein Society Committee |accessdate=2015-07-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711161629/http://www.editor.net/BWS/committee.html |archivedate=2015-07-11 }} He is also the editor of Why Philosophy Matters,{{Cite web | url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/why-philosophy-matters/ |title = Why Philosophy Matters}} Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein {{Cite web | url=http://www.anthempress.com/anthem-studies-in-wittgenstein |title = Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein}} and "Philosophers in Depth".{{Cite web | url=http://www.palgrave.com/series/philosophers-in-depth/PIDs/ | title=Philosophers in Depth }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Sandis writes a quarterly opinion column for The Philosophers' Magazine, contributes to Times Higher Education and The Times Literary Supplement, and frequently appears as a guest on radio programmes such as The Moral Maze, Analysis, and Free Thinking. He is Secretary of the British Wittgenstein Society and a Research Associate at the Waterloo Institute for Hellenic Studies {{Cite web | url=https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/contacts/dr-constantine-sandis |title = WIHS researcher page| date=16 October 2013 }} and CRÉ - University of Montreal.{{Cite web | url=https://www.lecre.umontreal.ca/chercheur-e/constantine-sandis/ |title = CRÉ researcher page| date=16 May 2014 }}
Research
Sandis' research has primarily focused on the philosophy of action but he has also written about reasons, moral psychology, and understanding, as well as exegetical accounts of related works by Hume, Hegel, Anscombe, and Wittgenstein. His 2012 book The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues for a pluralist account of actions and their explanations, and includes the controversial view that the reasons for which we act cannot in themselves explain why any action occurs. Since then he has published numerous articles defending the view that understanding others is not reducible to obtaining information about their 'mental contents' and that, consequently, no theory about the nature of such access can account for understanding others, which requires the sharing of behaviour. He has also collaborated with Microsoft Research on designing intelligible AI {{Cite web |url=https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/news/2017/august/philosophy-professor-joins-microsoft-research-cambridge-as-visiting-researcher |title=herts.ac.uk |access-date=2017-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030003227/https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/news/2017/august/philosophy-professor-joins-microsoft-research-cambridge-as-visiting-researcher |archive-date=2017-10-30 |url-status=dead }} and co-written papers on the ethics of risk-taking with Nassim Nicholas Taleb.{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1561/105.00000006|title = The Skin in the Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events|journal = Review of Behavioral Economics|volume = 1|issue = 1–2|pages = 115–135|year = 2014|last1 = Taleb|first1 = Nassim N.|arxiv = 1308.0958}} More recently, he has been writing on music and especially that of Bob Dylan.{{Cite web |url=https://www.constantinesandis.com/dylan-at-80|title=Dylan at 80|date=25 October 2021 |access-date=2022-09-05}}
Publications
Books
- New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, with Timothy O'Connor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Hegel on Action, with Arto Laitinen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- The Things We Do and Why We Do Them, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Human Nature, with Mark Cain, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Anti-Causalim in the Philosophy of Action, with Giuseppina D'Oro, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice, Open Book Publishers, 2014.
- Philosophy of Action: An Anthology, with Jonathan Dancy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
- Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe, Routledge, 2018.
- Character and Causation: Hume's Philosophy of Action, Routledge, 2019.
- Raisons et responsabilité: Essais de philosophie de l’action, Ithaque, 2021 [2nd edition: Eliott editions, 2024].
- Dylan at 80, with Gary Browning, Imprint Academic, 2021.
- Extending Hinge Epistemology, with Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.
- Πρόθεση [Greek translation of G.E.M. Anscombe's Intention]'', with Evgenia Mylonaki, Crete University Press, 2024.
- Real Gender, with Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Polity, 2024.
- From Action To Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility, Bloomsbury, 2024.
- Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land, Anthem, 2025.
Articles
- {{cite journal |title=Virtue Ethics and Particularism| journal =Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume|volume=44|pages= 205–232 |doi=10.1093/arisup/akab013|date=2021| issue =3| hdl =2299/24010|hdl-access=free| last1 =Sandis| first1 =Constantine}}.
- {{cite journal |title=No Picnic: Cavell on Rule-Descriptions| journal =Philosophical Investigations|volume=95|pages= 295–317 |doi=10.1111/phin.12308
|date=2021| issue =1| hdl =2299/24983|hdl-access=free| last1 =Sandis| first1 =Constantine| s2cid =233882077}}.
- ‘Who Are 'We' for Wittgenstein?’ in (ed. H. Appelqvist),Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language (Routledge, 2019), Ch.8.
- ‘Are Reasons Like Shampoo?’ in (ed. G. Schumann),Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography (Routledge, 2019), Ch.8.
- {{cite journal |title= Hegel on Purpose (with A. Laitinen)| journal = Hegel Bulletin|volume=40 | issue = 3 |pages= 444–463 |doi=10.1017/hgl.2019.12 |date=2019| url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/hegel-on-purpose/7790F7E4346617450E5DC6522699B7EE |hdl= 2299/23159 | s2cid = 203391941|hdl-access= free }}
- {{cite journal |title= Making Ourselves Understood | journal = Wittgenstein-Studien|volume=10 | issue = 1 |pages= 242–260 |doi=10.1515/witt-2019-0015 |date=2019| last1 = Sandis| first1 = Constantine| s2cid = 189294209}}
- {{cite journal |title= Kant and Hegel on Purposive Action (with A. Laitinen & E. Mayr)| journal = Philosophical Explorations|volume=21 | issue = 1 |pages= 90–107 |doi=10.1080/13869795.2017.1421693 |date=2019| url = https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103027|hdl= 2299/20302| s2cid = 149096200|hdl-access= free}}
- {{cite journal |title= The Doing & the Deed | journal = Royal Institute of Philosophy|volume=80|pages= 105–126 |doi=10.1017/S1358246117000121|date=2017| hdl = 2299/19981| s2cid = 149218779|hdl-access= free}}
- {{cite journal |title= Verbal Reports and "Real' Reasons| journal =Ethical Theory and Moral Practice|volume=18|pages= 267–280 |doi=10.1007/s10677-015-9576-6|date=2016| hdl =2299/17612| s2cid =145390834|hdl-access=free}}
- {{cite journal |title= One Fell Swoop: Small Red Book Historicism Before and After Davidson | journal = Journal of the Philosophy of History|volume=9 | issue = 3 |pages= 372–92 |doi=10.1163/18722636-12341308 |date=2015| hdl = 2299/19326|hdl-access= free }}
- {{cite journal |title=The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events (with Nassim N. Taleb) | journal = Review of Behavioral Economics|volume=1 | issue = 1–2 |pages= 1–21 |doi=10.1561/105.00000006 |date=2014|arxiv=1308.0958 | last1 = Taleb| first1 = Nassim N.| last2 = Sandis| first2 = Constantine}}
- ‘‘Can Action Explanations Ever be Non-Factive?’’ in (eds B. Hooker, M. Little, and D. Backhurst), Thinking about Reasons (OUP, 2013), pp.29-49.
- {{cite journal |title= The Objects of Action Explanation| journal = Ratio|volume=25 | issue = 3 |pages= 26–44 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00545.x|date=2015 | last1 = Sandis| first1 = Constantine}}
- ‘The Experimental Turn and Ordinary Language’, Essays in Philosophy, Vol 11. No 2. (July 2010), 181-96.
- {{cite journal |title=The Man Who Mistook his Handlung for a Tat| journal = Hegel Bulletin|volume=31 | issue =2 |pages= 35–60 |doi=10.1017/S0263523200000057 |date=2010| s2cid = 170894067}}
References
External links
- Academia [http://herts.academia.edu/ConstantineSandis]
- Medium [https://medium.com/@constantinesandis]
- University of Hertfordshire [http://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/constantine-sandis(cefbea24-79ba-429a-a9b9-665286672415).html]
- Personal Website [https://www.constantinesandis.com/]
- Lex Academic [https://www.lexacademic.com]
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Category:21st-century Greek philosophers
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