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Zsolt Kapelner

@zsoltkapelner.bsky.social
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I'm a political philosopher, I'm a postdoc at the University of Oslo. I work on democracy, agenda setting, and immigration. www.zsoltkapelner.com

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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My paper "The Ethics of Agenda Setting" has been published in Synthese. I am very happy about this one, it's one of the main outputs of my work on the role of attention in democratic politics at the University of Oslo, and hopefully a prelude to much future work on the pol.phil of agenda setting
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The ethics of agenda setting - Synthese
Synthese - Agenda setting is the process through which certain issues emerge as objects of collective attention in public discourse and policymaking. How the agenda is set is extremely important....
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
YES! Orban is out!
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Régen sokat foglalkoztam a forradalom politikafilozófiájával, beleértve a forradalom oldalán történő külföldi intervenció etikáját is, ami most Irán nyomán értelemszerűen aktuális lett, úgyhogy írtam erről. A lényeg az, hogy az intervenció egyes esetekben elvileg igazolt lehet, de most nem az.
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Forradalom és intervenció
Iránban tömegek demonstrálnak a rezsim ellen, a halottak száma egyre nő — népfelkelés van (talán forradalom?).
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Itt ezt eddig nem nagyon reklámoztam, de van nekem egy Substackem, ahol politikáról és filozófiáról írok. Itt van az idei első poszt, ahol az igazság és a politika viszonyáról írtam.
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Igazság és politika
Politika és igazság összetett viszonyt ápol egymással.
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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.
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Ignoring the Unreasonable
Illiberal and antidemocratic political forces, for example, in the form of far-right populism, are on the rise. Such politics, commonly referred to as ‘unreasonable’ in political philosophy, is widely...
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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...
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A figyelem politikája
Holnap délután 5-től tartok egy online előadást “The Ethics of Agenda Setting” címmel (ha meg akarjátok hallgatni, itt még lehet rá regisztrálni ingyen), úgyhogy gondoltam írok egy kicsit arról, mivel...
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🛎️ 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
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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Attention, politics, and democracy - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Philpapers seems to be down
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“To the Finland Station”: Trump as a tool of history - by @brankomilan.bsky.social #USPolitics #Trump branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-the-fin...
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“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Disgusting
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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Salience in Society
Salience in Society The Nature and Ethics of Collective Attention University of Vienna, 3–4 December 2024
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 29/11/2024
This is the kind of paradox I live for
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The Paradox of Gilmore Girls and the Sopranos
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In Season 6, episode 4 an episode of the Sopranos, an episode of Gilmore Girls is playing on TV.
In Season 7, episode 17 of Gilmore Girls, Richard is wearing a tracksuit. Lorelai makes a joke about it by asking if he's having lunch with Tony Soprano.
So obviously this means that both the Sopranos and Gilmore Girls exist as television shows in the other's respective universe. B ut more alarmingly, this means that each universe has now become a televised universe of itself within their own universes. When the Gilmore Girls watch the Sopranos, they will see themselves in the show.
Likewise, when Tony Soprano watches Gilmore Girls, he will witness a direct reference to himself. It's like the effect of two mirrors facing each other: the universes of the Gilmore Girls and the Sopranos are infinitely replicated all the way down.
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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.
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A Disease of Affluence
Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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.
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Civic Friendship, the Burdens of Politics, and the Ethics of Attention
In Philosophizing the Indefensible Shmuel Nili proposes strategic political theory as a productive and respectful manner for political philosophy to engage with unreasonable political views. One objec...
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Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What Does Democracy Look Like? A new short piece I wrote for the OUP Blog.... blog.oup.com/2024/11/what...
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What does democracy look like?
“This is what democracy looks like!” is a popular rallying cry of engaged democratic citizens across the globe. It refers to outbreaks of mass political action, episodes where large numbers of citizen...
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Makes me think of Rousseau (B4Ch10-11 of the Social Contract) and Hobbes as well.
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This new piece on democratic stability and backsliding by Ryan Pevnick sounds super interesting. politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
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Democratic Stability and Backsliding <!--EndFragment-->
In light of mounting concerns about democratic backsliding, Rawls’s work – which has an unusual focus on considerations of stability – is now being mined for insights about democratic fragility. This ...
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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.
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Frp større enn regjeringspartia samla på NRKs måling for november
No peikar heile ein av fire veljarar på Sylvi Listhaugs Frp. Partiet får større oppslutnad enn dei to regjeringspartia Ap og Sp har til saman.
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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...
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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
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Zsolt Kapelner @zsoltkapelner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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"
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Jules @julesholroyd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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
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British Society for Ethical Theory
2025 Annual Conference: Southampton
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