C. Mantzavinos

Chrysostomos Mantzavinos
Born	(1968-08-19) 19 August 1968 Athens, Greece
Education	University of Athens (B.A), University of Tübingen (PhD in Economics, 1992), (PhD in Philosophy, 2004)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of Athens
Main interests	Philosophy of science, epistemology, social theory, political theory, institutions, naturalistic
Notable ideas	Explanatory Games, Methodological Unity of Science and Humanities, Cognitive Institutionalism, The Constitution of Science

Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (born August 19, 1968) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens, Greece. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He serves as a Correspondent Etranger at the Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne University 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. ISBN 978-0-521-54833-5
• Naturalistic Hermeneutics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. ISBN 0-521-84812-1
• 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. ISBN 978-3-030-05834-0
• A Dialogue on Institutions. Heidelberg, New York: Springer 2021 ISBN 978-3-030-63016-4

External links

• Official website
• Cognition, Institutions, and Social Change: A Conversation with Chrysostomos Mantzavinos