Constantine Sandis
FRSA
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( el, Κωνσταντίνος Σάνδης; born 1 October 1976) is a Greek and British
philosopher and
entrepreneur
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. Having worked on
philosophy of action
Action theory (or theory of action) is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind. This area of thought involves epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, j ...
,
moral psychology,
David Hume
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, and
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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, in 2013 he became the UK's youngest Professor of Philosophy, aged 36. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Hertfordshire
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and a Founding Director of author services firm Lex Academic.
Biography
Sandis read
Literae Humaniores at
St Anne’s College,
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
, where he was taught by
Gabriele Taylor
E. Gabriele Taylor (born 11 October 1927) is a British philosopher and university teacher. She was fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford, until her retirement in 1996. She notably taught the philosophers Roger Crisp and Const ...
,
Roger Crisp
Roger Stephen Crisp (born 23 March 1961) is fellow and tutor in philosophy at St. Anne's College, Oxford. He holds the university posts of Professor of Moral Philosophy and Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy. His work falls principally wi ...
, Alison Denham, and
A.C. Grayling, as well as
Peter Hacker
Peter Michael Stephan Hacker (born 15 July 1939) is a British philosopher.
His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophical anthropology. He is known for his detailed exegesis and interpretatio ...
at
St John's College, Oxford, Katherine Morris at
Mansfield College, Oxford
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, and Hugh Rice at
Christ Church, Oxford. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Reading
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(2005), under the supervision of
Jonathan Dancy
Jonathan Peter Dancy (born 8 May 1946) is a British philosopher, who has written on ethics and epistemology. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin and Research Professor at the University of Reading. He taugh ...
. Having worked at
Oxford Brookes University from 2005 to 2015, he subsequently moved to Hertfordshire. He is also the editor of Why Philosophy Matters, Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein and "Philosophers in Depth". Sandis writes a quarterly opinion column for
The Philosophers' Magazine
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, contributes to
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
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and
The Times Literary Supplement
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History
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, and frequently appears as a guest on radio programmes such as
The Moral Maze
''Moral Maze'' is a live discussion programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990. Since November 2011, it has also been available as a podcast.
Structure
Four regular panellists discuss moral and ethical issues raised by a recent news story. ...
, Analysis, and Free Thinking. He is Secretary of the British Wittgenstein Society and a Research Associate at the Waterloo Institute for Hellenic Studies and CRÉ - University of Montreal. He is married to Lex Academic CEO Louise Chapman.
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 and co-written papers on the ethics of risk-taking with
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. More recently, he has been writing philosophical essays on rock music, especially that of Bob Dylan.
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
Jonathan Peter Dancy (born 8 May 1946) is a British philosopher, who has written on ethics and epistemology. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin and Research Professor at the University of Reading. He taugh ...
, 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.
*''Dylan at 80'', with Gary Browning, Imprint Academic, 2021.
*''Extending Hinge Epistemology'', with Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.
Articles
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* ‘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.
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* ‘‘Can Action Explanations Ever be Non-Factive?’’ in (eds B. Hooker, M. Little, and D. Backhurst), ''Thinking about Reasons'' (OUP, 2013), pp.29-49.
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*‘The Experimental Turn and Ordinary Language’, ''Essays in Philosophy'', Vol 11. No 2. (July 2010), 181-96.
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References
External links
* Academi
* Mediu
* University of Hertfordshir
* Personal Websit
* Lex Academi
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1976 births
21st-century Greek philosophers
Academics of the University of Hertfordshire
Action theorists
Analytic philosophers
Living people
Moral philosophers