Holger Kiik

The first two sentences hit hard like "Hello 911, I would like to report a burn victim."
In other words: cognitive and situated diversity is an epistemic tool for both democracy and political&moral theory.

Gerald Gaus in "The Open Society and Its Complexities" (2021)
#polphil #polsci #

Connectivity. Networks. Flows. | 400013950 In an age of specialisation, no single researcher can navigate the vast scope of knowledge required to tackle today’s challenges. Modern research recognises the interconnectivity between the natural s...

AI in Politics: Repairing Democratic Connections? New chapter from @tamaraehs.bsky.social, @ortiztudela.bsky.social and I. We explore what the democratic challenges would be if we all had our own AI political adviser. The whole book is available open access: www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Connectiv...

Maya Tudor: "If policymakers follow the principle of avoiding harm, then they should play the odds. And when it comes to delivering longer-living, more educated, less violence-prone, and more prosperous societies, playing the odds means betting on democracy."
@jodemocracy.bsky.social
#polsci #polsky

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

RMZ Jour Fixe lecture series, winter semester 2025/26

Next Wednesday, October 15 (11 AM CET), we're kicking off the fall semester Jour Fixe lecture series!

The first speaker will be Christian Greiffenhagen, with the talk "Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review.”

Join us in Berlin or on Zoom!

I love crowded trains where there's rows of double seats taken with one person + one small bag 😂
People wanting to be left alone, I guess. Something something individualism and lonely society.
Of course, not too difficult to ask "Is this seat taken?"

🍊 Fresh out!

Petr Kokaisl examines how the presence of a functioning nation-state shapes national #identity in diaspora.

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buff.ly/Bqfnm8m

To be fair, Germany gets a bad rep and talks less grandiose than some other countries, but ranks number 2 in total aid to Ukraine (different story per GDP, of course).
www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...

YouTube video by Dima Watermelon POV: you are 🇺🇦 living in Germany

New interview with a previous #German chancellor just dropped:
www.youtube.com/shorts/U48Kq...
#Ukraine #Merkel #Schröder

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our findings...

Russland: Wir möchten alle Ost-Europa wieder zu besetzen, Menschen zu töten, Völke zu vernichten.
Ost-Europa: Ee... Nein, Danke.
#Merkel: Oo, Meinungsunterschiede. Wir brauchen einen Kompromiss. Seien Sie vernünftig und lassen Sie mich mit Putin 1:1 sprechen, um über Ihre Souveränität zu entscheiden

YouTube video by Partizán Angela Merkel: a magyar nép feladata eldönteni, újraválasztja-e Orbán Viktort

"The Office" ft. #Germany.
Unglaublich, dass 3,5/ 11 Jahren später täuscht mann sich noch & hält Vorträge über Putinverstehen, wie jede USA Präsident mit der "Reset-Taste".
"KoronaVirus... Wir könnten einander nicht treffen...Auge in Auge die Meinungsunterschiede...".
Thankfully #Merz is not fooled

Congratulations, Dr. Lopes! 💥

Day 2 live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRwG...

#athensdemocracyforum #polphil #polsci #polsky #polisci

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

#PublicationAlert 🥰. This one has been long in the making: It started with a @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in 2023, lead to a working group at the SFI in 2024, multiple online-meetings (one from Costa Rica, Munich, Denmark, Mumbai, and the US), thought-provoking and truly interdisciplinary work.

Screenshot of the article “Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure ‘Monitoring Electoral Democracy’ (MEDem)” published in European Political Science. The header shows the journal name, DOI link, and the label “DEBATE.” Below, the title is followed by the author list: Hajo Boomgaarden, Alexia Katsanidou, Sylvia Kritzinger, Georg Lutz, Johanna Willmann, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl. The abstract explains the aims of MEDem as a European research infrastructure to make democracy research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). Keywords listed include open science, FAIR data, ESFRI roadmap, research infrastructure, democracy research, data harmonization, data linking, and data set search. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00534-8

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real…
🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social

The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

YouTube video by Athens Democracy Forum Athens Democracy Forum 2025 - Day 1

Athens Democracy Forum fascinating discussions being livestreamed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18E...

Program: www.athensdemocracyforum.com/program/2025...
A relevant Bluesky account: @demcultfoundation.bsky.social

#Democracy #Polisky #Polsci #athensdemocracyforum #Polphil

Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293

Book cover and details for History and Theory of Compromise, open access, to be published 2026

Coming out soon!
I've written a chapter for this book, where I compare compromise between persons to compromise within a person.
Looking forward to reading the other chapters!!
Many thanks to the editors for putting this together 🙏
@karstenmause.bsky.social

#academicsky

Turn those red pins into saved bookmarks! Definitely one we will be using.

"russia is categorically opposed to placing foreign military troops in #Ukraine".
Well, that's great: get your troops out of Ukraine, then!

Jokes aside, no reasons will "convince" a lunatic. russia must just be kicked out of #Ukraine by all means, all else is rewarding aggression.

Namita Herzl (ed.): Women Beyond the Canon: Philosophies and Feminisms, Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim, 2025.

Full Open Access: doi.org/10.18442/hpg...

#philosophy #feminism

My experience is that hybrid events that relate to ignorance, intelligence, situatedness and democracy most likely welcome everyone to listen.
Some "required fields" in the registration form, but I assume affiliation can very well be "none" or "independent scholar" (I'm not organizing it ofc.).

#philosophy #epistemology #socialepistemology #ethics #polphil #feminism

I noticed the event way too late, but it's hybrid, so perhaps you would also like to catch some presentations:
"(Not) Caring to Know: Vice Epistemology meets Situated Affectivity"

by Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value at the University of Pardubice 🇨🇿

centreforethics.upce.cz/en/not-carin...

Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality: Knowledge and Governance in a Non-ideal World provides an account of the fundamental design of an institution…

#philosophy #politicalepistemology #democraticinnovations #polsky
www.bloomsbury.com/us/instituti...

Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping the main theories of epistemic ...

And although spending much time together, talking about career-planning, how we should self-advertise me more or "be visible", forgot to take a single photo. So here is proof of the event happening :) It was very nice. Maybe the organizers took photos.
Ps. Cerovac and Žubcic have great books

I am constantly reminded to self-advertise more, do linkedin, post photos of events etc. I agree but forget & share articles I like.

After organizing a "Knowledge and Democracy" panel at the Estonian Annual Philosophy Conference with @miasmafactory.bsky.social & I. Cerovac, we discussed it again.

Nauru cuts diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China Taiwan loses one of its few official allies just days after a presidential election.

You know this of course, but for context if someone missed it last year:
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...