Basic Information

Contact Information

cmantzavinos[at]phs.uoa[dot]gr

Academic Information

Education

• B.A., Economics, University of Athens (1989)
• Ph.D., Economics, University of Tübingen (1992)
• Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Tübingen (2004)
• Habilitation, University of Bayreuth (1999)

Research Interests

• Rationality
• Institutions
• Political Economy
• Values and science
• Scientific explanation
• Hermeneutics

Courses - Seminars

Undergraduate

• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Topics in Contemporary Philosophy

Graduate

• Scientific Explanation
• Problems of Philosophy
• Philosopical Dialogues
• Theories of Truth
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Selected Publications:

Books

• Wettbewerbstheorie, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994

• 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 and New York: Springer, 2018

• Α Dialogue on Institutions, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 2021

Papers

• (with Douglass C. North and Syed, Shariq): Learning, Institutions and Economic Performance, in: Perspectives on Politics, vol. 2. No 1, 2004, pp. 75-84.

• The Institutional-Evolutionary Antitrust Model, in: European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 22, 2006, pp. 273-291.

• What Kind of Problem Is The Hermeneutic Circle?, in: Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice, Mantzavinos C. (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 299-311.

• Federalism and Individual Liberty, in: Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 21, 2010, pp. 101-118.

• The Ethical Project. A Dialogue, in: Analyse und Kritik, vol 34, 2012, pp. 21-38.

• Explanations of Meaningful Actions, in: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 42, June 2012, pp. 224-238.

• Explanatory Games, in: The Journal of Philosophy, vol. CX, Nov. 2013, pp. 606-632.

• Text Interpretation as a Scientific Activity in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, vol. 45, 2014, pp. 45-58

• Scientific Explanation, in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, 2015, pp. 302-307.

• Hermeneutics, in: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Published online 22 June 2016.

• The Nature of Science. A Dialogue, in: Synthese, vol. 196, 2019, pp. 775-793.

• Hermeneutik als rationale Methodenlehre der Interpretation, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 2019, vol. 73, pp. 222-243.

• Normativität, Metaethik und Naturalismus, in: Von besten und zweitbesten Regeln.Platonische und aktuelle Perspektiven auf individuelles und staatliches Wohlergehen, Hrsg.Föllinger, Sabine und Korn, Evelyn, Philippika - Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen,Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2019, S. 125-139.

• A Dialogue on Understanding, in: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 49, pp. 307-322.

• Science, Institutions, and Values, in: European Journal of Philosophy, 2020 (online version before included in an issue).

• Institutions and Scientific Progress, in: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2020 (online version before included in an issue).

• A Dialogue on Republicanism, in: Revue de Philosophie Économique, 2021 (forthcoming).

  - With a full paper as a reply by Philip Pettit: A Dialogue on Republicanism: A Response, in: Revue de Philosophie Économique, 2021 (forthcoming).

Other

• Philosophy Section Editor for the 2nd Edition of the International Encyclopedia of
  Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015.