
Dr Leonidas Tsilipakos
PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
I have published work on theoretical and methodological issues in the social sciences in journals such as Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. A comprehensive statement of my position, which draws on the Wittgensteinian tradition of conceptual analysis applying it to theoretical issues regarding, among others, social ontology, realism and ‘the problem of structure an agency’ can be found in my 2015 monograph, entitled Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory: Taking Concepts Seriously (Routledge). Currently, I am working on a number of topics including a conceptual clarification of ‘the emotions’ as a sociological topic and the intersection between utopian thinking and the sociology of race.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
BERT for discourse analysis
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
13/03/2025Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science
Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science
Examining normative sociology and phronetic social science in the light of practical reason
Civic Sociology
The Sense of Social Imaginaries?
Innovation in the Social Sciences
Frank Ebersole on Wittgenstein and Pictures in Philosophy
Metaphilosophy
Winch’s Idea at sixty-five
European Journal of Social Theory