Henrik D Kugelberg

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

My paper on institutions and intimacy now got its @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue number 📚 ⌨️ !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

YouTube video by Jo Wolff How to write a philosophy essay Jonathan Wolff, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford

Was very proud of this little essay writing guide for Philosophy when I put it together 7 years ago in those innocent pre-COVID days when an animated power point video was cutting edge technology. Still getting viewed from time to time.

youtu.be/hwd5wWY5TmM?...

Del 2: Sam Altman – maskinernas framtid, mänsklighetens dilemma - P3 ID Han har blivit AI-kapplöpningens ansikte utåt men anklagas för att vara alldeles för riskbenägen. Det här är andra och sista delen om Sam Altman.

Pratar maktkoncentration, upphovsrättsintrång, och techbubblor i P3 ID. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/del-...

My friend Kal thinks you should vote everyday 🗳️🤔🕒 :) This is an unusually creative piece of theory and a fantastic paper

Every Day an Election Day Voting occurs on Election Day. In the history of electoral democracy, this fact has been closely identified with the practice of elections. However, I argue the temporality of election time generates ...

My paper defending a new electoral system out now at Free & Equal!

Del 2: Sam Altman – maskinernas framtid, mänsklighetens dilemma - P3 ID Han har blivit AI-kapplöpningens ansikte utåt men anklagas för att vara alldeles för riskbenägen. Det här är andra och sista delen om Sam Altman.

Pratar maktkoncentration, upphovsrättsintrång, och techbubblor i P3 ID. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/del-...

Here is a rapidly growing starter pack with political theorists and philosophers. Please share it widely and send me a message if you want to be added to the list!!🌻 go.bsky.app/4uqLbgZ

updated my political philosophy starter pack

all the podcast guests + a few others

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Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup.

@ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.

Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1 Recent analytical political theory has sought to develop a conceptual analysis of feasibility for the purpose of specifying the “ought implies can” principle. Two central premises of this debate are (...

Fantastic paper by Hallvard Sandven breaking new ground in the crowded feasibility debate. I’m convinced by the argument that feasibility is either superfluous or moralised.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Thanks Avshalom!!

Thanks, sounds super interesting! I'll have a look!!

Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...

My @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper on politics and intimacy is featured in Political Science Today @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in a great piece by Ewa Nizalowska 💫🔭

It's that time of year! If you are a new PhD student in philosophy starting this fall, please let me know to add you to the starter pack!

Alternatively, add the starter pack to get some fresh perspectives. :-)

Intoxicated by warm praise and affection yesterday. Something of a hangover today, finally clearing out my office.

Yesterday we celebrated @jowolff.bsky.social remarkable career. Hard to put into words, so here’s a glimpse of the standing ovation that closed the day. Love, admiration, philosophy at its best. Days like this remind me why we do what we do.

Stephanie Wanga

My now *former* student @stephaniewanga.bsky.social (stephaniewanga.com) successfully defended her thesis yesterday! She's off to take up a postdoc in Wellesley next! We worked together on political philosophy with an especial look at anarchic theories and their application in post-colonial Africa.

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick, part II: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Done!

We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance.

More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)

Ja verkligen!

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Theory The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Political Theory. The successful candidate will conduct research in any area of polit...

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department!

Deadline 26 May.

Happy to answer questions by email.

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire.

www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...

So honoured my @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper was chosen by the APSA Public Scholarship Programme. Excellent summary of this piece by Ewa Nizalowska at Cornell’s Government Department. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?

The Politics of Online Dating In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Elsa Kugelberg,University of Oxford, "Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere." With around 350 million yearly users, online dating apps have revolutionized romance in the modern age…

In a recent @apsrjournal article, @ElsaKugelberg asks what it would mean for dating app corporations to serve the interests of their users.

Call for Papers: Critical Theory of the Computational This international workshop aims to use critical theories in order to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems are also part of broader glob...

Call for Papers: Critical Theory of the Computational (16-17. Oct, Berlin): www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

For over a decade, the Israeli centre dominated the opposition—and squandered its moment. It promised to safeguard democracy, restore unity, and bring stability. It delivered none. My new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social.

There are lessons here beyond Israel.