Themistoklis Pantazakos

MSc, Philosophy of Science, the London School of Economics; Ph.D., Phenomenologically Informed Mental Health Interventions for Autism, University College London

Dr. Themis Pantazakos completed his Ph.D. at University College London. He worked on the development of mental health interventions for autism that are less oriented towards making the client conform to societal norms and more oriented towards improving their subjective quality of life. His research continues to focus on this area, with expansions into the mechanisms of perception. He explores questions surrounding the constructivist nature of our perception, and the extent to which our perceptions are veridical representations of the external world. Dr. Pantazakos also holds an M.Sc. in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, where he won the Imre Lakatos award for outstanding performance. He has published widely in field-leading journals, such as Philosophical Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Synthese, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C. He is currently under contract with Springer for a monograph addressing the epistemology of perception and its impact on science’s quest for truth.