My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper got its issue number📕📖🩵

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…

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

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...

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?...

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

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

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 go.bsky.app/6BBahr1

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.

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/...

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.

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...

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!)

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...?

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 (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.

Come work with us! My department, the @oii.ox.ac.uk is hiring a Departmental Research Lecturer In AI, Government & Policy. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacan...

In light of the increasing reliance on opaque algorithmic systems in decision-making, many theorists and legislators have made calls for a right to an explanation. Here is our paper arguing against this! It will be published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. philpapers.org/rec/KARNRT

In light of the increasing reliance on opaque algorithmic systems in decision-making, many theorists and legislators have made calls for a right to an explanation. Here is our paper arguing against this! It will be published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. philpapers.org/rec/KARNRT

Just published on APSR First View: "Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere" by Elsa Kugelberg. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/dating-apps-and-the-digital-sexual-sphere/2F83AAEFB7DEA94FA4179369A004CEEC

New paper💡! My work on online dating, power and social institutions is now published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! I provide a normative framework for what goes on in this part of the ‘digital sexual sphere’ and explore the role dating apps play in our societies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm really pleased to see that the official Audible Audiobook of The Edge of Sentience will be out on 18 February. Thanks to OUP for believing in the book and making this happen!

Ny forskningsartikel i @apsrjournal.bsky.social!🥤🥤 Jag undersöker datingapparnas makt över sociala institutioner i och utanför den ”digitala sexuella sfären” + beskriver hur och varför den behöver begränsas. Kommer även med policyförslag. Open access— alla kan läsa! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Brilliant paper by @elsakugelberg.bsky.social! If you’re working on the normative aspects of liberal theory, feminism, markets, technology, or competition, I highly recommend it. A beautiful example of political philosophy done in a relevant and interdisciplinary way. #poltheory

Given the part dating apps play in our society, this sort of exploration is as important to theorizing social life, as work on marriage and the family was for earlier eras

In case anyone is in Oxford in the early summer, it would be lovely to see you at my Locke Lectures, running each Wednesday at 5pm from 30th April to 4th June (details in the link). Title: From a Point of View Abstract in comments. www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/john-locke-l...

Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Finally the paper I co-authored with Gabriele Badano, “Must the Subaltern Speak Publicly? Public Reason Liberalism and the Ethics of Fighting Severe Injustice”, is in early view at the Journal of Politics! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Abstract in the comments below

Kal’s book is out!!🚨 In it @kkale.bsky.social explores key questions in the metaphysics of race and discusses prominent accounts in the literature, such as biological racial realism, social constructivism about race, and racial anti-realism. @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

My Cambridge Element is out now and free to download until January 2!

To all the new people here on BlueSky interested in legal philosophy: I am resharing this starter pack. If you want in, let me know! And please help spread the word if you can. :)

Two of my wonderful Leeds colleagues have new Cambridge Elements out and free to access for the next 4 weeks! Kal Kalewold (@kkale.bsky.social) on Metaphysics of Race: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Al Wilson (with Amanda Bryant) on Modal Naturalism: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky

Delighted to share our call for papers for the 2025 Women in the History of Political Thought conference. We welcome papers related to women's contributions to political thought. We look forward to receiving your submissions! womeninhpt.com

I hadn't seen a starter pack yet for ethics (sorry if I missed it!), so I decided to throw one together. Let me know if I've missed anyone (including yourself!)--I cobbled this together quickly, so it's likely I've missed some folks! (And let me know if you want to be removed!) go.bsky.app/6woXBGa