Constantine Sandis

Constantine Sandis
Born (1976-10-01) 1 October 1976 (age 50)
New Delhi, India
Academic background
ThesisThe Things that We Do and Why We Do Them (2005)
Jonathan Dancy
InfluencesLudwig Wittgenstein, David Hume
Academic work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or tradition
Analytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford, University of Hertfordshire, Oxford Brookes University
Main interests
Philosophy of action, Moral psychology

Constantine Sandis FRSA (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Σάνδης; born 1 October 1976) is a Greek and British philosopher. He works primarily on the philosophy of action, moral psychology, and the works of David Hume and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Sandis is a Research Associate at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. He has previously held visiting fellowships at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University and the Centre de recherche en éthique, Montréal.

Biography

Sandis read Philosophy and Theology at St Anne's College, Oxford. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading in 2005, supervised by Jonathan Dancy.

In 2005, he joined Oxford Brookes University, where he was appointed Professor of Philosophy in 2013. He later served as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. Sandis is the series editor for Why Philosophy Matters, Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein, and Philosophers in Depth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Research

Sandis' research focuses on the philosophy of action, specifically concerning reasons, moral psychology, and human understanding. His 2012 book, The Things We Do and Why We Do Them, argues for a pluralist account of action and its explanation. He defends the position that the reasons for which an agent acts are not always the causal explanations for why the action occurred.

He has written extensively on the view that understanding others requires a shared context and behavior rather than simply accessing 'mental contents'. In addition to his work on David Hume and Ludwig Wittgenstein, he has collaborated with Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the ethics of risk and tail events.

Publications

Selected Books

Articles

References

  1. ↑ "Uehiro Oxford Institute Research Associate Page". 20 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "Murphy Institute Faculty Fellow Page". 28 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "CRE Collaborator Page". 20 January 2026.
  4. ↑ "The Oxford Philosopher Speaks to… Constantine Sandis". Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Royal Institute of Philosophy - About". 28 December 2025.
  6. ↑ Taleb, Nassim N.; Sandis, Constantine (2014). "The Skin in the Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events". Review of Behavioral Economics. 1 (1–2): 115–135. arXiv:1308.0958. doi:10.1561/105.00000006.