Henrik D Kugelberg

Paradoxen i nätdejting – så blev kärlek en handelsvara Marknaden som formar våra intima relationer • ”Två logiker som krockar”

Pratade med @efntv.bsky.social om min forskning 💕📱 efn.se/marknaden-fo...

I'm now a co-host at "New Books in Philosophy" (part of the New Books Network).
My first interview has been posted. It's with Gina Schouten (Harvard U) regarding her recent book, _The Anatomy of Justice_ (OUP, 2024).

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A brief observation on the relationship between antecedent status and reviewing incentives. Liam Kofi Bright ABSTRACT It is often believed that academics are especially harsh in their evaluation of work that critiques their own ideas. I dispute that claim. Rather, I say, consideration of the credit incentives for academics reviewing critique of their own work should lead us to expect them to typically be particularly generous to critique of their own work.

In what many are calling the most CV efficient strategy ever, I have my 2026 paper out already (relax for the rest of the year comrades!) and it's actually a bit of a joke one. Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and abstract attached. But I'll just tell the story of how it came to be....

This will be excellent — “Partisan Virtue” by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

AIDE Summer AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...

Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org

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 👇

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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 political philosophers, a systematic normative evaluation of issues arising in the “digital sexual sphere” is lacking. I provide a philosophical framework for assessing the conduct of dating app corporations, capturing both the motivations of users, and the reason why they find usage unsatisfying.

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...

How to write a philosophy essay Jonathan Wolff, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford YouTube video by Jo Wolff

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?...

Del 2: Sam Altman – maskinernas framtid, mänsklighetens dilemma - P3 ID Han har blivit AI-kapplöpningens ansikte utåt men anklagas för att vara alldeles för riskbenägen. Det här är andra och sista delen om Sam Altman.

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

Every Day an Election Day Voting occurs on Election Day. In the history of electoral democracy, this fact has been closely identified with the practice of elections. However, I argue the temporality of election time generates ...

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

Del 2: Sam Altman – maskinernas framtid, mänsklighetens dilemma - P3 ID Han har blivit AI-kapplöpningens ansikte utåt men anklagas för att vara alldeles för riskbenägen. Det här är andra och sista delen om Sam Altman.

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.

Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1 Recent analytical political theory has sought to develop a conceptual analysis of feasibility for the purpose of specifying the “ought implies can” principle. Two central premises of this debate are (...

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/...

Thanks Avshalom!!

Thanks, sounds super interesting! I'll have a look!!

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.

Stephanie Wanga

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...