Constantine Sandis

Constantine Sandis

@csandis.bsky.social

Director @lexacademic.bsky.social | RSA Fellow Research Associate @ox.ac.uk & @uehiro.ox.ac.uk | Distinguished Visiting Scholar @waidecenter.bsky.social | www.lexacademic.com https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/people/constantine-sandis

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Mind to Supermind, with the inimitable @keithfrankish.com! Recorded instead of taking a siesta between a day at Matalia beach and an evening session at @philosynthesis.com. Happy times...

Keith Frankish@keithfrankish.com

Another Mind to Mind interview. I talk to philosopher Constantine Sandis about action and agency, Anscombe and Wittgenstein, the ethics of action, and the Parthenon marbles. The interview was recorded in Heraklion this summer. youtu.be/AZ5yPxTeD14 @csandis.bsky.social

Owing to popular demand, we now offer a reference verification service, currently very popular amongst legal scholars and professionals, but increasingly across the humanities and social sciences.

Lex Academic@lexacademic.bsky.social

As more authors use AI to build bibliographies, we are seeing a sharp rise in references that are misattributed and erroneous. Our reference verification service is conducted by researchers with no AI involved, ensuring spotless, factually accurate publications. www.lexacademic.com/academicveri...

The US version can be pre-ordered from @yalepress.bsky.social and all good bookshops for $30.

Constantine Sandis@csandis.bsky.social

My latest book, How to Understand Others, is now available for pre-order from @yalebooks.bsky.social and all good bookshops (RRP £20). The book represents the culmination of 10 years' interdisciplinary work on the topic, written to be accessible to all. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

My latest book, How to Understand Others, is now available for pre-order from @yalebooks.bsky.social and all good bookshops (RRP £20). The book represents the culmination of 10 years' interdisciplinary work on the topic, written to be accessible to all. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

yalebooks.co.ukHow to Understand Others - Yale University Press LondonAn incisive and witty philosophical guide to how we can make sense of ourselves and other peopleHow do we really come to ‘understand’ others—or even to...

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my five favorite books on Wittgenstein? easy, its four times Wittgenstein on Other Minds [Hardcover] and Wittgenstein on Other Minds [paperback]

I've finally cracked the problem of individual vs group agency: An individual's practical reasoning concludes in action, but the practical reasoning of committees only concludes in action points.

I'm looking forward to this conference on Action, Politics, & Responsibility. This time next week in Tokyo! I'll be talking about 'Agents as Truthmakers', which is a topic I've been thinking about for a while, but not yet in relation to group agency. apr-2026-tokyo.weebly.com

apr-2026-tokyo.weebly.comPAGESDates and times            11-12 September 2026, 930am - 630pm Address                            Tokyo, Juntendo University, Hongo Ochanomizu Campus, Building 7, ground floor,...

Greatly looking forward to this discussion of Wittgenstein's and Richards' intimate correspondence!

Bloomsbury Philosophy@bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social

Join the British Wittgenstein Society for a discussion of 'I Think of You Constantly with Love' with editors Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt, joined by Maria Balaska and @csandis.bsky.social. 🗓️ 2 September ⏰ 6pm-8pm GMT 💻 Online (Zoom) Register here: https://bit.ly/4wktkDq

What a new EU law imposing an indelible watermark on text created with or using AI means for your research.

Lex Academic@lexacademic.bsky.social

As the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act's rules come into legal force, Anthropic is branding all text generated (or even modified) by Claude with an invisible watermark. Once a boon to writers, AI tools now carry a legal burden and penalties loom large. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...

I'm elated that @lexacademic.bsky.social are helping with important books such as this.

Lex Academic@lexacademic.bsky.social

We were honoured to have provided @dkbooks.bsky.social with sensitivity reading for Rita Carter's magnificent new edition of The Brain Book, now available for purchase. dk.com/products/978... Authors or publishers in need of sensitivity reading, please email editor@lexacademic.com

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A few weeks after The Selfish Gene was published, Kenny took part in an event with Dawkins at Balliol organised by Denis Noble. There, he is said to have mocked the idea of replicators by asking Dawkins: “If all I knew about English was its alphabet, how could I possibly understand Shakespeare?”

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So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

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It's very painful inside 95% of universities. The reality is that (a) 25% to 33% of posts will close; (b) a handful of unis will go bust and be forcibly merged; (c) Arts and Humanities will be restricted to a small number of institutions whose disgraceful behaviour certainly won't be forgotten.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Use code WPS25 for 25% off all books in @anthempress.bsky.social Studies in Wittgenstein, including this wonderful volume (co-edited by @martinurschel.bsky.social) out now!

Anthem Press@anthempress.bsky.social

Just Published! A Wittgensteinian approach to the multi-disciplinary and pluralistic study of popular culture. Get your copy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t5jvpj3 #AnthemPress @tudresden.bsky.social #Wittgenstein #LudwigWittgenstein @martinurschel.bsky.social #PhilosophyOfCulture #CulturalStudies #newreads