Jan Kandiyali

For Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently Social Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.

I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong.

jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...

Book Review: Marx’s Ethical Vision, by Vanessa Christina Wills - Jan Kandiyali, 2025

Jan Kandiyali on Marx’s Ethical Vision, by Vanessa Christina Wills

Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 75, No 2 This article develops an account of distributive epistemic justice in the production of scientific knowledge. We identify four requirements: (a) science should produce the knowledge citizens need in o...

Faik Kurtulmus and Gurol Irzik have a terrific paper on this and related themes, if you don’t know it already:

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

YouTube video by Blavatnik School of Government The Public Philospher: A day in honour of Jo Wolff’s career

Link to the last session of the talks for my retirement conference last week. Ngaire Woods, Avner de-Shalit, @barrycsmith.bsky.social @davidedmonds100.bsky.social Philippe van Parijs and me.

Links to other sessions coming shortly.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZh...

Not a critique as such but I recently read two very good overviews of Raz’s political philosophy: Daniel Viehoff on the morality of freedom on the pea soup blog and David Owens on ‘Raz as a political philosopher’ in modern law review.

I like William Morris too, but the idea of rereading News from Nowhere at the beginning of each year sounds like an unusual form of punishment.

Graphic promoting a new title from Philosophy in Review. The text reads: “New title offering — Disability Through The Lens of Justice by Jessica Begon.” The background is textured green paper, and a yellow circular PIR logo appears next to the heading.

Cover of the book Disability Through the Lens of Justice by Jessica Begon. The cover features an abstract painting of intertwined human figures in dynamic motion, using red, black, and white brushstrokes. The title and author's name appear in a red block at the bottom, with the subtitle “New Topics in Applied Philosophy.” A circular yellow sticker in the lower-right corner shows the letters "PIR" for Philosophy in Review.

Interested in reviewing 'Disability Through the Lens of Justice'? Reach out to us at pir@uvic.ca and explore this and other titles through the link in our bio! #Disability #Philosophy

It was a pleasure to host @leaypi.bsky.social for our annual Adam Smith Lecture and seminar. Special thanks to Mirjam Mueller and Jan Kandiyali as visiting discussants for lively seminars on Lea's work on territorial rights and moral socialism.

We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

New article in Political Philosophy: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism" by Jan Kandiyali (Durham) and Martin O'Neill (York) @jkandiyali.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social, available open access here: politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social > "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism" by Jan Kandiyali (@jkandiyali.bsky.social) and Martin O'Neill ‪(@martinoneill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/pp....

It was an absolute pleasure working with @martinoneill.bsky.social on this paper on liberalism and socialism/Rawls and Marx, and I’m delighted to see it in print in @polphiljournal.bsky.social

This may just be me, but in philosophy compliments about the quality of writing, such as something being ‘clear’, ‘well written’ or even worse ‘accessible’, can sometimes seem to carry the implication of lacking depth.

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments": Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*:

"We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism "

Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists!

politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

Few things beat discussing socialism with such great comrades and friends. Huge thanks to @tatianallaguno.bsky.social @vharting.bsky.social and @jkandiyali.bsky.social

Diary Week 1

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

Much as we all detest (other's people's) jargon, if you have a view and want people to talk about it then you have to give it a mellifluous name. A large proportion of the citations to my work pick up on the terms 'corrosive disadvantage', 'fertile functionings' and 'shameful revelation'.

I also liked the ‘patchwork’ account of political obligation.

BJPolS abstract discussing the strategic logic of China's censorship regime, arguing that freedom of expression aids in overcoming coordination problems and enhancing collective power, but requires reliable public sources of information and equal opportunities for public participation.

The first article from our 2025 volume is The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay:

Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp

- @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Regrettably, this framing is unsurprising, as @jkandiyali.bsky.social and I have argued in this paper: philpapers.org/rec/KURCAI-2

Great issue of CRISPP now out - from socialism and republicanism to homelessness, climate budgets and the interests of nonhuman animals - a real intellectual feast

Should socialists be republicans?
Jan Kandiyali
Pages: 1032-1049

Educating citizens to public reason: what can we learn from interfaith dialogue?
Aurélia Bardon, Matteo Bonotti & Steven T. Zech
Pages: 1050-1074

Against the budget view in climate ethics
Lukas Tank
Pages: 1075-1088

New book from OUP.

academic.oup.com/book/58124

‘A common theme throughout Bob’s career was…a great energy and infectious enthusiasm: for philosophy, but also for the practice of doing philosophy with others and for building productive yet friendly and collegial communities.’ That was Bob. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Amazing to think that a paper in a special issue would become that influential. Hard to imagine now. Kymlicka’s paper is also much cited.

Building up the anticipation with a photo of the first copy of the hard back, received today.

IAS Book Launch: City of Equals Join us for the launch of 'City of Equals' by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit

Book launch for City of Equals UCL IAS 17th October 5.00pm

Avner (on Zoom) and I will be in conversation with Dr Marta Wojciechowski (Department of Political Economy, King’s College) and Professor Peg Rawes (Architecture and Philosophy, The Bartlett, UCL)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-l...

Robert Stern obituary Other lives: Professor at Sheffield University who was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation

Very nice obituary in The Guardian of my teacher and friend Bob Stern, written by another one of his students Josh Forstenzer.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The good news is that it's Marx next. And after Hegel, he is a breeze!

Ha! I was rather hoping it'd be the other way round!

Drop them in at the deep end!