FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
philjobs.org/job/show/30997
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Pratade med @efntv.bsky.social om min forskning 💕📱 efn.se/marknaden-fo...
14.02.2026 09:41 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
📚 Out with OUP this summer: "Experts in a Turbulent World" 📚
An edited volume that connects historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of experts in international organisations. 1/3 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
31.12.2025 08:53 — 👍 208 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 5
Such a treat to speak with @volts.wtf about social identity and the epistemic crisis.
David is really sharp and does a fantastic interview - no small feat to make a plodding academic sound like a lively conversationalist!
Highly recommend the podcast to anyone (like me) who didn't know it before.
Combat your broligarchy-induced despair & pre-order Democratizing AI here (or convince your university library to order it 😉): www.amazon.com/Democratizin...
17.12.2025 22:12 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
14.12.2025 13:25 — 👍 7662 🔁 1885 💬 133 📌 101
The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >>
www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...
Who protests against democratic backsliding? A new working paper with Margalit, Sheffer and Yakir examines this issue and finds that people’s conceptions of what democracy means play a crucial role in predicting whether they engage in active opposition to backsliding efforts. osf.io/preprints/so...
11.12.2025 14:10 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0If you are in London and interested in these conversations, you are very welcome to join us. Attendance is in person only. Details and booking (including titles and abstracts) are in the link above. Sign up to secure a seat and to receive the paper :)
11.12.2025 08:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This year’s list of speakers is particularly outstanding: Temi Ogunye (Princeton), Rufaida Al Hashmi (Reading), Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford), Danielle Allen (Harvard), Daniel Viehoff (Berkeley), Lowry Pressly (Stanford), and Cécile Laborde (Oxford).
11.12.2025 08:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >>
www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
05.12.2025 13:06 — 👍 33 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere By Elsa Kugelberg, University of Oxford The online dating application has in recent years become a major avenue for meeting potential partners. However, while the digital public sphere has gained the attention of…
Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory
Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis)
Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7...
Please circulate widely!
Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!
01.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
30.11.2025 07:37 — 👍 648 🔁 121 💬 32 📌 15
‘What passes for post-liberalism today is either pernicious or impotent.’
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Update: free copy available within the next 14 days, CUP tells me! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
27.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Democratic theorists: Is there an orthodox position on the limits of democratic authority? Or something that counts as the most influential treatment? Christiano perhaps? #philsky #poltheory
21.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0My paper on institutions and intimacy now got its @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue number 📚 ⌨️ !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
15.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Just posting a link to the recent French translation of my An Introduction to Political Philosophy, first because I'm very pleased to have a French edition, and second, because I like the cover so much.
eliotteditions.fr/44-introduct...
If you're nosey (like I always am), you can find the schedule here. And if you'd like to read the draft paper, just let me know!
oxfordstudiespoliticalphilosophy.sbs.arizona.edu/oxford-studi...
Join us for symposium on our book Human Rights at Work (with @thebigbogg.bsky.social, H Collins, ACL Davies) on 5 November, at the Bonavero Institute, Oxford, with Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Claire Darwin KC & Kate O' Regan. Chaired by @marijajovanovic.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uncollected-writings-9780198927570?cc=gb&lang=en&
Officially published today! Link in Alt Text.
(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)
This is a brilliant and important paper that deserves wide attention — relevant for political theorists, political scientists, and civil–military scholars alike. It tackles one of the most neglected questions in the study of democratic backsliding: its relationship with the military.
12.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
