WOinActie heeft met afgrijzen kennisgenomen van de plotselinge aankondiging van het College van Bestuur van de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social om de Engelstalige bacheloropleiding Economics & Business Economics per 2029 te stoppen.
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Individuals' motivated reasoning can be entirely compatible with epistemic virtues at the system level, depending on the incentive structures and intersubjective norms of discursive conduct. I think each of us is getting a tiny portion of things right, and that's fine.
A good day for preparing my slides for next week's conference presentation on the democratization of the workplace, and Robert Michels' iron law of oligarchy, and plebeian democracy. Looking forward to seeing @uguraytac.bsky.social and @tatianallaguno.bsky.social.
More info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Cover of the most recent issue (2/2025) of the Journal of International Political Theory.
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2
Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
Today we concluded the ERC project "The Business Corporation as a Political Actor" with its final conference. End of an era!
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!)
Fantastic paper by @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social!
Looking at the tariff debate and I reckon it's excellent that we managed to preserve normative theory in polisci, and that we still think about the fact-value distinction. Economists make moral & political judgments and pretend they're just scientific predictions, or mix predictions and politics.
Shame on you for instrumentalizing an autocrat's self-coup to make a point. Millions are fighting against brutal state violence and a regime where one man controls the media, judiciary, and law enforcement. We are not your rhetorical toy!
Today the Dutch Higher Education Relay Strike happened in Twente. Once more, a massive turn-out and strong protest against the announced budget cuts that are unnecessary, illegitimate, unjustified, and irrational.
#WOinActie #Doehetniet
Transition to full authoritarianism is inevitable unless this attack on free elections is reversed through large-scale resistance from a broad coalition.
Garbage. Utter garbage.
Join us for a lively discussion on our work-in-progress (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar). What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than giving me a hard time with tough questions?
Join us for a lively discussion on our work-in-progress (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar). What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than giving me a hard time with tough questions?
Poster for Ugur's talk with cartoon figures holding placards and the title, "Justifying a labour right to counterpublics".
Good discussion at @uguraytac.bsky.social's talk in Barcelona this afternoon.
Foucault basically reinvented Hume on artificial virtues [ducks for cover]
Happy to share that my paper "What is the Point of Social Media?" is available online in Philosophy & Technology! In it, I offer a new normative lens to think about Big Tech reform, proposing to transform the corporate purpose of social media companies.
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The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
Last two days for submissions! Join us at the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki in August 2025. @tatianallaguno.bsky.social and I are convening a panel on how digital tech transforms work and the economy. Submit your abstract to us by Dec 15.
Picket line at UvA PCH
Day two of the strike!
Could be an excellent dorky conference outfit with a blazer!
Cons is not necessarily a cons, I thrive on desk rejection drama! :)
A lot of "civilisationism" flying around left and right: where politicians use gender equality, gay rights and anti-Semitism to discredit cultural others, particularly Muslims.
Politicians on the Right, and the their advisors, have admitted to using this strategy as a weapon against the Left 🧵
Is it policy positions on a specific issue borrowed from other parties or copying the level of increasing attention paid to an issue? I quickly skimmed it and thought they're talking about the latter.
Haha, thanks for watching the frontiers in our absence, Jon Snow!
I left last year and then came back. Am I eligible for a second "eyyy"?
