Professor Constantine Sandis

Professor Constantine Sandis is a Founding Director of Lex Academic, serving as COO, Chief Publication Consultant, and, thanks to being quinquelingual, Head of Translation. He is also Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Charles F. Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University, CT. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and serves as a Trustee of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. There, he Chairs the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Constantine has previously held esteemed Visiting Faculty positions at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and the Murphy Institute, Tulane University, LA.

Constantine matriculated in 1994 at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, reading for an MA in Philosophy & Theology. He thereafter, in 2005, completed his PhD at the University of Reading under the supervision of Jonathan Dancy. His research interests primarily lie in transdisciplinary and, increasingly, applied moral psychology directed toward advancing our understanding of human flourishing and right action, questions that lie at the heart of Uehiro’s mission. His authored books include The Things We Do and Why We Do Them, Character and Causation, Real Gender (with Danièle Moyal-Sharrock), Wittgenstein on Other Minds, and From Action to Ethics. He has additionally edited and co-edited over a dozen volumes, including Cultural Heritage Ethics, Love and Reasons, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (with Timothy O’Connor), Reasons and Causes (with Giuseppina D’Oro), and The Philosophy of Action – An Anthology (with Jonathan Dancy). He is Series Editor of Philosophers in Depth, Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein, and (with Evgenia Mylonaki) Why Philosophy Matters. For their sins, Mylonaki and Sandis co-translated Elizabeth Anscombe’s Intention into modern Greek in 2023.

Constantine is currently working on a transdisciplinary book (How to Understand Others) for Yale University Press, as well as two volumes with his first philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Gabriele Taylor, who has been hugely influential in the establishment of the philosophy of emotions, as well as philosophical interest in vice. The first is a book of her articles, tentatively titled Justifying the Emotions: Selected Papers. The other is a memoir of her life, including Philosophy in Oxford from 1952 to 1995.

Constantine regularly appears as a guest on BBC Radio programmes such as In Our Time, The Moral Maze, and Free Thinking. For more information, please visit www.lexacademic.com and www.constantinesandis.com.