Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens and an elected member of the Academia Europaea, the International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences. He has taught at Freiburg, Stanford and Witten/Herdecke, was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, and held visiting appointments at Harvard, Princeton, and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris. He is the author of Wettbewersbstheorie (Duncker & Humblot, 1994), Individuals, Institutions and Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), A Dialogue on Explanation (Springer Nature, 2018), A Dialogue on Institutions (Springer Nature, 2021), The Constitution of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2009).