Sandis' research has primarily focused on the philosophy of action but he has also written about reasons, moral psychology, and understanding, as well as exegetical accounts of related works by Hume, Hegel, Anscombe, and Wittgenstein. His 2012 book The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues for a pluralist account of actions and their explanations, and includes the controversial view that the reasons for which we act cannot in themselves explain why any action occurs. Since then he has published numerous articles defending the view that understanding others is not reducible to obtaining information about their 'mental contents' and that, consequently, no theory about the nature of such access can account for understanding others, which requires the sharing of behaviour. He has also collaborated with Microsoft Research on designing intelligible AI [11] and co-written papers on the ethics of risk-taking with Nassim Nicholas Taleb.[12] More recently, he has been writing philosophical essays on rock music, especially that of Bob Dylan.[13]
"One Fell Swoop: Small Red Book Historicism Before and After Davidson". Journal of the Philosophy of History. 9 (3): 372–92. 2015. doi:10.1163/18722636-12341308. hdl:2299/19326.
Taleb, Nassim N.; Sandis, Constantine (2014). "The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events (with Nassim N. Taleb)". Review of Behavioral Economics. 1 (1–2): 1–21. arXiv:1308.0958. doi:10.1561/105.00000006.
‘‘Can Action Explanations Ever be Non-Factive?’’ in (eds B. Hooker, M. Little, and D. Backhurst), Thinking about Reasons (OUP, 2013), pp.29-49.
^Taleb, Nassim N. (2014). "The Skin in the Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events". Review of Behavioral Economics. 1 (1–2): 115–135. arXiv:1308.0958. doi:10.1561/105.00000006.
^"Dylan at 80". 25 October 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2022.