Constantine Sandis

Constantine Sandis
Born	(1976-10-01) 1 October 1976 New Delhi, India
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Philosophy of action Moral psychology Wittgenstein

Constantine Sandis, FRSA (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Σάνδης; born 1 October 1976) is a Greek philosopher working on philosophy of action and moral psychology, and collaborating with Microsoft Research on the agency of AI.

Biography

Sandis read Literae Humaniores at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, where he was taught by Roger Crisp and Gabriele Taylor, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading (2005), under the supervision of Jonathan Dancy. Having worked at Oxford Brookes University from 2005 to 2015, he is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and Secretary of the British Wittgenstein Society Sandis is the editor of the Palgrave "Philosophers in Depth" series and has contributed regularly to The Times Literary Supplement and Times Higher Education. He has also co-written a number of papers on the ethics of risk-taking with Nassim Nicholas Taleb and hosts the Bloomsbury's Why Philosophy Matters series of events.

Publications

Monographs

• The Things We Do and Why We Do Them, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Edited volumes

• 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.
• Human Nature, (co-ed, with Mark Cain), Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Anti-Causalim in the Philosophy of Action (co-ed 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.

External links

• Articles on academia.edu
• Stories on Medium