Chrysostomos Mantzavinos

Chrysostomos Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences in the University of Athens. 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 holds two Ph.D degrees, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen.

The project 

Title: Ethics and Economics. A Comparative Approach

Keywords: 

Institutions, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Hermeneutics

Selected publications

• Wettbewerbstheorie, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994
• Individuals, Institutions, and Markets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Naturalistic Hermeneutics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Explanatory Pluralism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016