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Shai Agmon

@shaiagmon.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Political Philosophy | UCL Philosophy & EISPS | Academic Director @molad-institute.bsky.social‬ | bylines @haaretzcom.bsky.social.

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was interviewed by @etc.se about my research on online dating and the demands of justice we can and should place on digital platforms www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...
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Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exciting news! UCL’s Institute of Law, Politics & Philosophy is partnering with Law and Philosophy to launch the annual Ronald Dworkin Lecture. We’re delighted that Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) will deliver the first Inaugural Dworkin lecture in May 2027. More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ucl-ins...
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!
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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'The Future as a Democratic Resource', my article now published at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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The Future as a Democratic Resource | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Future as a Democratic Resource - Volume 24 Issue 3
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I @cafebambino.bsky.social pratar Tone Schunnesson och @karinp.bsky.social om min artikel i @apsrjournal.bsky.social om dating som social institution och vilka krav man kan ställa på politiken och på plattformarna. Extremt bra förklarat och kontextualiserat här: open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
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Elsa Kugelberg om dejtingappar som social institution
Café Bambino · Chapter · 12m
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm quite proud of this chapter. It's about why we only apply the concept of an "internally displaced person" in the Global South and why that's a mistake. I wrote it while staying to Boston one summer and ended up writing mostly about Hurricane Katrina. academic.oup.com/book/56150/c...
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Internal Displacement in the Global North
Abstract. Most internal displacement occurs in the Global South, at least according to our usual ways of measuring and conceptualizing forced movement. How
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I spoke to @theguardian.com about the future of online dating: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our paper on self-driving cars and AI dilemmas is featured in @efn.se Vetenskap! @henrikdku.bsky.social efn.se/ai-behover-f...
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Forskarna: Sluta jaga AI:s värsta scenarier
Ny studie: Moraldilemman har fått för stort fokus
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In this now published paper @henrikdku.bsky.social and I argue for domain-specific theorising, and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are more like participants in the institution of traffic and less like trolleys, for example. 🚗🫧 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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Practice-Dependent Governance of AI
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
JOB! We're hiring a Lecturer in Philosophy on a 2-year fixed-term contract (partly to cover my teaching over the next few years). Please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
One way to parse @adamprz.bsky.social's "democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" is as statement about competitiveness and its role in actualizing the benefits of representative democracy. This trend, even if it didn't feed proto-authoritarianism is, thus, Very Bad.
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Presenting my work on institutional power and the sexual sphere at @manchester.ac.uk Centre for Political Theory today! This is part of my book project on what justice in this domain requires beyond mere noninterference
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 28/04/2026
📚 If you're thinking of pre-ordering my book The Technocratic International - out with OUP next week - here's a discount code! 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Promo code "AUFLY30" to save 30% at global.oup.com/academic when ordering The Technocratic International
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Somayeh Tohidi @somayehtohidi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Almost a week until this event!
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Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I wrote about the coming Iranian-American talks in Pakistan, the role of Vance and Ghalibaf; and how the talks could change Iran. Let me know what you think! www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Reasons to be Hopeful in Iran
How a deal could change the country for the better.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
For Orbán and his allies, much is at stake beyond losing political power:
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Jan-Werner Müller | At a Budapest Scruton Café
Tourists might stumble into a Scruton café in quite different parts of Budapest: one is on the second floor of a...
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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Political Economy of National Identity: a chapter with Moses Shayo for the Handbook of the Economics of Identity. We review econ & pol‑sci research on how national identities shape trade, welfare policy, conflict, and polarization. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
At @promarket.bsky.social, @samuel-bagg.bsky.social and Shai Agmon argue that competition policy should pay greater attention to friction between competitors, an insight that favors the neo-Brandeisian approach over the traditional consumer welfare approach.
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Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind - ProMarket
In a new volume chapter, Shai Agmon and Samuel Bagg argue that academic and policy references to “competition” often fail to distinguish between competition’s many forms. Their disaggregation of compe...
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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for highlighting my blog post with @shaiagmon.bsky.social in their weekly roundup! The post draws from our chapter in a new book on Democracy and Competition, which I co-edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Democracy and Competition | Home
Rethinking the Forms, Purposes, and Values of Competition in Democracy
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My and @henrikdku.bsky.social paper on regulating AI is accepted in Journal of Business Ethics! We argue for domain specific theorising and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are better understood as participants in the traffic institution than as trolleys, for example.
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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In any case, both the chapter and the shorter blog post draw on @shaiagmon.bsky.social's seminal work distinguishing between parallel and friction competition. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Two Concepts of Competition* | Ethics: Vol 133, No 1
I offer a novel distinction between two concepts of competition. The first, parallel competition, is designed to create separate pathways for each competitor wherein they can maximize their performanc...
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Fantastic stuff from @shaiagmon.bsky.social and @samuel-bagg.bsky.social #PolTheory #EconSky
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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What kind of "competition" should competition policy promote? In a new post, @shaiagmon.bsky.social and I argue that friction btw competitors is key to realizing the social benefits of competition. Yet we routinely ignore it when designing competitive institutions. www.promarket.org/2026/03/18/e...
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Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind - ProMarket
In a new volume chapter, Shai Agmon and Samuel Bagg argue that academic and policy references to “competition” often fail to distinguish between competition’s many forms. Their disaggregation of compe...
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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey #poltheory and #polisky folks, check out this new book on Democracy and Competition from @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social, which I edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social - www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Democracy and Competition | Home
Rethinking the Forms, Purposes, and Values of Competition in Democracy
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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
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PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol - PhilJobs:JFP PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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University Assistant Professor in Political Theory
Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Pratade med @efntv.bsky.social om min forskning 💕📱 efn.se/marknaden-fo...
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Paradoxen i nätdejting – så blev kärlek en handelsvara
Marknaden som formar våra intima relationer • ”Två logiker som krockar”
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 22/01/2026
📚 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...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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.
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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Best Reads of 2025. I flagged Laura K. Field's Furious Minds.
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PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2025
PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that most influenced their thinking over the past year.
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Annette Zimmermann @drzimmermann.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Combat your broligarchy-induced despair & pre-order Democratizing AI here (or convince your university library to order it 😉): www.amazon.com/Democratizin...
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Democratizing AI (Critical Powers)
Democratizing AI (Critical Powers) [Zimmermann, Annette] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Democratizing AI (Critical Powers)
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14/12/2025
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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Dworkin Colloquium series, 2025-26
The Dworkin Colloquium series, organised by the UCL Institute for Laws, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP)
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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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Dworkin Colloquium series, 2025-26
The Dworkin Colloquium series, organised by the UCL Institute for Laws, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP)
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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
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Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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…
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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.
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Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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!
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Alison McQueen @aejm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
On 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.’
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/11/2025
‘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...
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Jan-Werner Müller · Caesar wept: Trolling the Libs
All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power...
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Lisa Herzog @lisamherzog.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Update: free copy available within the next 14 days, CUP tells me! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Politics and the Economy
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Politics and the Economy
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Democratic 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
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My paper on institutions and intimacy now got its @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue number 📚 ⌨️ !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere - Volume 119 Issue 4
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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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...
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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...
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Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 13th Annual Workshop Schedule | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
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