Chrysostom Mantzavinos

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Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (born August 19, 1968 in Athens ) is a full professor of philosophy in the social sciences at the University of Athens . He is visiting professor at the Institute for Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover and also teaches at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

biography

Mantzavinos graduated from the German School in Athens and was the first to take the entrance exams for the Greek universities in June 1986. He first studied economics at the University of Athens and completed his studies after 5 semesters instead of 8 semesters (standard period of study). He completed his doctoral degree in economics with a DAAD scholarship in Tübingen and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From 1995 to 2000 he was a research assistant (C1) at the chair for general economic policy at the University of Freiburg (on leave 1997-1999 to do military service in Greece). In 1999 he completed his habilitation in Bayreuth . In the academic year 2000–2001 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of Stanford University and from 2001 to 2004 research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn . In the summer semester of 2004 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University and in the same year he received his PhD in philosophy in Tübingen. phil. PhD.

In 2004 he was appointed to the chair for economics and philosophy at the University of Witten / Herdecke . In 2010 he followed a call to the University of Athens as full professor of philosophy in the social sciences. He was visiting scholar twice at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, in the 2006 summer semester and 2008/2009 winter semester, as well as at the University Center for Human Values ​​at Princeton University (2013) and at other universities in the USA and Europe.

Fonts (selection)

  • Competition theory . Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1994. (Economics writings. 434.)
  • 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

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personal data
SURNAME Mantzavinos, Chrysostom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens