Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (born August 19, 1968) is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Athens
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, Greece. He is a member of the ''
Academia Europaea
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'' and of the
Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
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. He serves as a Correspondent Etranger at the Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la
Sorbonne University
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and as a Mercator Fellow at the
DFG Research Training Group “Ethics and Epistemology of Science” at Bielefeld University/Leibniz University Hannover.
Mantzavinos is best known for his work in institutional analysis, in hermeneutics and in philosophy of science.
Selected works
* ''Wettbewerbstheorie''. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1994. (Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften. 434.) (in German)
* ''Individuals, Institutions, and Markets''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001.
* ''Naturalistic Hermeneutics''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005.
*''Philosophy of the Social Sciences'' (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009.
* ''Explanatory Pluralism''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016.
* ''A Dialogue on Explanation''. Heidelberg, New York: Springer 2019.
* ''A Dialogue on Institutions''. Heidelberg, New York: Springer 2021
References
External links
Official websiteCognition, Institutions, and Social Change: A Conversation with Chrysostomos Mantzavinos
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Greek academics
Greek writers
Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Academic staff of Paris-Sorbonne University
Living people
1968 births