My paper "Ignoring the Unreasonable" was just published. In it, I argue that when it comes to supporters of illiberal or authoritarian politics ("the unreasonable" in Rawlsian parlance), we should not listen to them and try to understand their perspective or where they're coming from.

Itt még nem osztottam ezt meg, de van nekem egy ilyen Substackem, ahol politikafilozófiáról írok, például ezt egy közelgő előadásomról, ha valakit érdekel: politikafilozofia.substack.com/p/a-figyelem...

🛎️ This Wednesday in #ECPRSeminars on #PoliticalTheory ⤵️ 🗣️ @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social argues that good agenda setting distributes agenda influence equally across society and produces agendas that advance both instrumental and non-instrumental values 💻 3 Dec, 16:00–17:00 GMT

The conference I've been organizing with Leonie Smith on attention and democratic politics is happening this week at the University of Oslo with a great line-up of speakers: www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

Philpapers seems to be down

“To the Finland Station”: Trump as a tool of history - by @brankomilan.bsky.social #USPolitics #Trump branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-the-fin...

Disgusting

I'm flying to Vienna to talk at this really great event on collective attention and salience in society. I'll present some of my newer work on agenda setting and democratic theory, and I'm looking forward to all these talks, it's a very exciting progamme. sites.google.com/view/salienc...

This is the kind of paradox I live for

I'm not fully sure about the empirical picture here, but as usual, @polphilpod.bsky.social's take has very much intelligence and insight, and I agree with a lot of it. I'm also very dissatisfied with the "abandoned working class" narrative.

My short piece on Shmuel Nili's book Philosophising the Indefensible, is now published in Analyse & Kritik. Although I was a bit critical, I think this book has really important things to say about engaging with illiberal/unreasonable politics and the responsibilities of political philosophers.

What Does Democracy Look Like? A new short piece I wrote for the OUP Blog.... blog.oup.com/2024/11/what...

Makes me think of Rousseau (B4Ch10-11 of the Social Contract) and Hobbes as well.

This new piece on democratic stability and backsliding by Ryan Pevnick sounds super interesting. politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

Hva betyr det egentlig for norsk politikk (og hvordan forholder seg denne utviklingen til den globale høyrebølge som vi kan se overalt)? Jeg er fortsatt nykommer her, jeg er ikke helt sikker på hvordan jeg skulle tenke om dette.

My Norwegian tutor asks the best political philosophy questions. Today we got into talking about what makes a great political leader. It's clearly not just popularity or skill in policy making. We settled on the idea that...

People talk about becoming a parent as a 'transformative experience' resetting one's whole outlook on the world. I wonder if that's a late capitalism thing. I guess what's supposed to be transformative is the feeling of deep responsibility for another person and their deep dependence on you. 1/2

I'm really tired today and didn't really feel like doing anything, so I joined Bluesky and practiced my Norwegian philosophy vocabulary. I learned the phrase "dogmatisk slummer"

Philosophy friends! Do consider submitting something for the upcoming deadline for the British Society for Ethical Theory's 2025 conference. We have Analysis Bursaries to assist with attendance costs. Make your paper part of the super program!! sites.google.com/view/british... #philsky