Constantine Sandis

Constantin Sandis

Reader in Philosophy

Department of History, Philosophy and Religion - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research activities

Details of my research

 

Telephone +44 (0) 1865488492
csandis@brookes.ac.uk
Room B2/20
Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford OX2 9AT

Academic and Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of History, Moral Psychology, History of Ideas.

Academic Qualifications

  • Philosophy &Theology, St. Anne’s College (Oxford), BA (hons) & MA
  • Politics and Government, St. John’s University (MA)
  • Philosophy, University of Reading (MA & PhD)

Previous Employment

Constantine has previously taught for the University of Bath, Open University, Florida Institute of Technology, the University of Reading, NYU in London (where he remains a faculty member), and for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He joined Oxford Brookes University in 2005; in the summer of 2009 he was a visiting fellow at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies.

Teaching Responsibilities

Postgraduate:
  • Problems in the Philosophy of Mind and Action (P70704)
  • MPhil & PhD Supervision
Undergraduate:
  • Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy (U73170)
  • Hellenistic Philosophy (U73129)
  • Introduction to Ethics (U73101)
  • Early Modern Philosophy (U73121)
  • Philosophy of Language (U73126)

Research and Consultancy Projects

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (http://www.thersa.org/), Nomos Network for Applied Philosophy (http://www.ub.es/grc_logos/nomos/), and the LOGOS project 'Modal Aspects of Materialist Realism' (http://www.ub.es/grc_logos/projects/p13.htm).
  • PhilPapers editor for the Philosophy of Action: http://philpapers.org/browse/philosophy-of-action/. Co-founder (with Andrei Buckareff) of a new Philosophy of Action website to be launched soon.
  • On numerous editorial boards and advisory panels including the Times Higher Education, Wiley-Blackwell Compass, Bulletin of the Hegel Society, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, BPPA Council, Center for Animal Cognition, Emotion, and Ecology, Philosophical Writings, Philosophical Frontiers, Ask a Philosopher, and Shibboleths.
  • Current collaborations include projects on the selected papers of A.R. White, a philosophy of action Anthology, and Palgrave Macmillan’s Philosophers in Depth series: http://www.palgrave.com/philosophy/pid.asp .
  • Co-organiser of 2010 Royal Institute of Philosophy conference on Human Nature: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/wie/news/RIPConference .
  • Editing a special issue of Essays in Philosophy on love & reasons, and a book on cultural heritage sites and rights (both for 2011).

 

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