Chrysostomos Mantzavinos - Biography#

C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He is Correspondant Etranger at the Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne.

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 (2001 - 2004). 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 (2013, 2022). He was a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group “Ethics and Epistemology of Science” at Bielefeld University/Leibniz University Hannover (2020 - 2024) and taught also at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He holds two Ph.D degrees, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen.

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