Constantine Sandis Oxford Brookes University, New York University
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  • PhD, University of Reading, 2005.

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Reader in philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and NYU in London.
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  1. Constantine Sandis (forthcoming). The Limits of Ignorance. Metascience.
    The limits of ignorance Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9571-z Authors Constantine Sandis, Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford, OX2 9AT UK Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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  2. Constantine Sandis (forthcoming). The Meaning of Hume's Necessary Connexions. In Keith Allen & Tom Stoneham (eds.), Causation and Modern Philosophy.
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  3. Constantine Sandis (2012). The Things We Do and Why We Do Them. Palgrave Macmillan.
    Machine generated contents note: -- Doing the Things We Do * The Reasons for which We Act * The Objects of Action Explanation * Things That Move Us to Act * Various Explananda, Various Explanantia * Agents and Their Actions * Causation in Action Individuation.
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  4. Constantine Sandis (2011). A Just Medium: Empathy and Detachment in Historical Understanding. Journal of the Philosophy of History 5 (2):179-200.
    This paper explores the role of empathy and detachment in historical explanation by comparing Collingwood and Hume's philosophies of history to Brecht and Stanislavki's theories of theatre. I argue that Collingwood's notion of re-enactment shares much more with Hume and Brecht than it does with Stanislavski. This enables a just medium between rationalistic and empathetic accounts of historical understanding, as recently put forth by Mark Bevir and Karsten Stueber respectively.
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  5. Constantine Sandis (2011). Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of Action – By Maria Alvarez. Ratio 24 (2):222-226.
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  6. Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (2010). Hegel on Action. Palgrave Macmillan.
    This volume focuses on Hegel's philosophy of action in connection to current concerns. Including key papers by Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John McDowell, as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions by leading scholars in the field, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action. Topics include: the nature of action, reasons and causes; explanation and justification of action; social and narrative aspects of agency; the inner and the outer; the relation between intention, planning, and (...)
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  7. Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (2010). Introduction : Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Action. In Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on Action. Palgrave Macmillan.
    The aim of this book is to provide an in-depth account of Hegel’s writings on human action as they relate to contemporary concerns in the hope that it will encourage fruitful dialogue between Hegel scholars and those working in the philosophy of action. During the past two decades, preliminary steps towards such a dialogue were taken, but many paths remain uncharted. The book thus serves as both a summative document of past interaction and a promissory note of things to come. (...)
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  8. Arto Laitinenen & Constantine Sandis (2010). Hegel on Action. Palgrave Macmillan.
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  9. Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (2010). A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Wiley-Blackwell.
    The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) Brings together specially ...
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  10. Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (2010). The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Blackwell.
    A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. -/- * The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) * Brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts * Discusses a range of ideas and doctrines, including rationality, free will and determinism, virtuous action, criminal responsibility, Attribution Theory, and rational agency in evolutionary perspective * (...)
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  11. Constantine Sandis (2010). The Experimental Turn and Ordinary Language. Essays in Philosophy 11 (2):181-96.
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  12. Constantine Sandis (2009). Contextualist Vs. Analytic History of Philosophy. Think:1-5.
    This paper uses analogies between Socratic and Wittgenseinian dialogues to argue that analytic philosophy of history should not be abandoned. -/- In their responses to my paper ‘In Defence of Four Socratic Doctrines’ James Warren and John Shand raised a number of important methodological objections, relating to the study of the history of philosophy. I here respond by questioning the supremacy of contextualist history of philosophy over the so-called ‘analytic’ approach. I conclude that the history of ideas had better leave (...)
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  13. Constantine Sandis (2009). Gods and Mental States : The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind. In Constantine Sandis (ed.), New Essays on the Explanation of Action. Palgrave Macmillan.
    This paper argues that contemporary philosophy of mind and action could learn much from the structure of action explanation manifested in ancient Greek tragedy, which is less deterministic than typically supposed and which does not conflate the motivation of action with its causal production.
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  14. Constantine Sandis (2009). Hume and the Debate on 'Motivating Reasons'. In Charles Pigden (ed.), Hume on Motivation and Virtue. Palgrave Macmillan.
    This paper argues for a novel interpretation of Hume's account of motivation, according to which beliefs can (alone) motivate action though not by standing as reasons which normatively favour it. It si then suggested that a number of contemporary debates about concerning the nature of reasons for action could benefit from such an approach.
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  15. Constantine Sandis (2009). Hitchcock's Conscious Use of Freud's Unconscious. Europe's Journal of Psychology 3:56-81.
    This paper argues that Hitchcock's so-called 'Freudian' films (esp. Spellbound, Psycho, and Marnie) pay tribute to the cultural magnetism of Freud's ideas whist being critical of the tehories themselves.
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  16. Constantine Sandis (2009). Hume’s Scepticism and Realism. Hume Studies 35 (1/2).
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  17. Constantine Sandis (2009). New Essays on the Explanation of Action. Palgrave Macmillan.
    A solid cast of contributors present the first collection of essays on the Philosophy of Action.
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  18. Constantine Sandis (2008). A Conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Philosophy Now 69:26-28.
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  19. Constantine Sandis (2008). Dretske on the Causation of Behavior. Behavior and Philosophy 36:71-86.
    In two recent articles and an earlier book Fred Dretske appeals to a distinction between triggering and structuring causes with the aim of establishing that psychological explanations of behavior differ from non-psychological ones. He concludes that intentional human behavior is triggered by electro-chemical events but structured by representational facts. In this paper I argue that while this underrated causalist position is considerably more persuasive than the standard causalist alternative, Dretske’s account fails to provide us with a coherent analysis of intentional (...)
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  20. Constantine Sandis (2008). How to Act Against Your Better Judgement. Philosophical Frontiers 3 (2):111-123.
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  21. Constantine Sandis (2008). In Defence of Four Socratic Doctrines. Think 6 (17-18):85-98.
    In this article, Sandis defends four of the most notorious doctrines which Plato attributes to Socrates. The first is the ‘theory’ of forms, the second is the doctrine of recollection, the third Socrates'contention that philosophers ought to be the guardian-kings of the ideal state, and the fourth his rejection of rhetoric. Sandis does not claim that his interpretation (which owes a lot to Wittgenstein) is correct, but only that it renders the doctrines both relevant and plausible.
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  22. Constantine Sandis (2008). Jessica Brown, Anti-Individualism and Knowledge. [REVIEW] Minds and Machines 18 (1).
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  23. Constantine Sandis & Nassim Taleb (2008). NassimTaleb in Conversation with Constantine Sandis. Philosophy Now (Sep/Oct):24.
    COnstantien Sandis speaks to Nassim Taleb about inductive knowledge,black swans, Hume, Popper, and Wittgenstein.
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  24. Constantine Sandis (2006). On Reason and Value: Themes From the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz:Reason and Value: Themes From the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz. [REVIEW] Ethics 116 (2):435-440.
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  25. Constantine Sandis (2006). Dancy Cartwright: Particularism in the Philosophy of Science. Acta Analytica 21 (2):30-40.
    This paper aims to explore the space of possible particularistic approaches to Philosophy of Science by examining the differences and similarities between Jonathan Dancy’s moral particularism—as expressed in both his earlier writings (e.g., Moral Reasons , 1993), and, more explicitly defended in his book Ethics without Principles (2004)—and Nancy Cartwright’s particularism in the philosophy of science, as defended in her early collection of essays, How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983), and her later book, The Dappled World: A Study of (...)
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  26. Constantine Sandis (2006). The Explanation of Action in History. Essays in Philosophy 7 (2).
    This paper focuses on two conflations which frequently appear within the philosophy of history and other fields concerned with action explanation. The first of these, which I call the Conflating View of Reasons, states that the reasons for which we perform actions are reasons why (those events which are) our actions occur. The second, more general conflation, which I call the Conflating View of Action Explanation, states that whatever explains why an agent performed a certain action explains why (that event (...)
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  27. Constantine Sandis (2006). When Did the Killing Occur? Daimon: Revista de Filosofia 37:179-186.
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  28. Constantine Sandis (2005). On Berent Enc's 'How We Act'. [REVIEW] Philosophical Books 46 (2):170-174.
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  29. Constantine Sandis & Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (2005). Philosophy of Mind. Philosophical Books 46 (2):170-174.
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  30. Constantine Sandis (2004). G.F. Schueler's Reasons and Purposes. [REVIEW] Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (2):223-225.
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  31. Constantine Sandis (2004). Philosophy for Younger People: A Polemic. Philosophical Pathways.
    Recent years have seen a high increase in the teaching of Philosophy in schools. Programs such as Pathways Schools in Australia International Society for Philosophers, since 2003), 'Philosophy in Schools' in the UK (Royal Institute of Philosophy, since 1999), and 'Philosophy for Children' in the USA, Australia, and the UK (International Council for Philosophical Inquiry since 1985 & Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education since 1993) are spreading around the world. Within a decade of its introduction Philosophy (...)
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  32. Constantine Sandis (2003). Review of Adam Morton, The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology As Ethics. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9).
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