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C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens. He is a member of the Academia Europaea – The Academy of Europe, the European Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences. He is Correspondant Etranger at the Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne. His new book entitled The Constitution of Science is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in November 2024. He is also the author of Wettbewerbstheorie (Duncker & Humblot, 1994), Individuals, Institutions, and Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), A Dialogue on Explanation (Springer, 2018), A Dialogue on Institutions (Springer, 2021) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals in four languages, notably “Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance” in Perspectives on Politics, 2004 (with Douglass C. North and Syed Shariq), “Explanatory Games” in The Journal of Philosophy, 2013, “Hermeneutik als rationale Methodenlehre der Interpretation” in Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 2019 and “Science, Institutions, and Values” in the European Journal of Philosophy, 2021. He is the Philosophy Section Editor for the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences that has appeared in 2015. Before his current appointment in Athens, he held the Chair of Economics and Philosophy at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (2004-2011). He has also taught at Freiburg, Bayreuth, and Stanford and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn. He served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard (twice), at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (twice) and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He was a Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg, served as a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group “Ethics and Epistemology of Science” at Bielefeld University/Leibniz University Hannover (2020-2024) and taught also at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He holds two Ph.D degrees, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen.
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