Our paper on self-driving cars and AI dilemmas is featured in @efn.se Vetenskap! @henrikdku.bsky.social efn.se/ai-behover-f...
Forskarna: Sluta jaga AI:s värsta scenarier
Ny studie: Moraldilemman har fått för stort fokus
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Shai Agmon
@shaiagmon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Political Philosophy | UCL Philosophy & EISPS | Academic Director @molad-institute.bsky.social | bylines @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
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...
Practice-Dependent Governance of AI
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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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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.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 3mo agoThanks to freshly gerrymandered House maps across the country, the number of competitive districts will fall to a new low of 33 (or less) this year, and only 15 are true toss-ups.
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
📚 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...
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...
Reasons to be Hopeful in Iran
How a deal could change the country for the better.
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For Orbán and his allies, much is at stake beyond losing political power:
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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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....
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.
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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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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Rethinking the Forms, Purposes, and Values of Competition in Democracy
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LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 5mo agoAt @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.
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.
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...
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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Fantastic stuff from @shaiagmon.bsky.social and @samuel-bagg.bsky.social #PolTheory #EconSky
Samuel Bagg@samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat 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...
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...
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...
promarket.org
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....
Democracy and Competition | Home
Rethinking the Forms, Purposes, and Values of Competition in Democracy
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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/
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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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
PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol - PhilJobs:JFP PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol
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JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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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📚 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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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.
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.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 8mo agoToday on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
Best Reads of 2025. I flagged Laura K. Field's Furious Minds.
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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Combat your broligarchy-induced despair & pre-order Democratizing AI here (or convince your university library to order it 😉): www.amazon.com/Democratizin...
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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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
BNO News@bnonews.com · 8mo agoWATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
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...
Dworkin Colloquium series, 2025-26
The Dworkin Colloquium series, organised by the UCL Institute for Laws, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP)
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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...
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...
Dworkin Colloquium series, 2025-26
The Dworkin Colloquium series, organised by the UCL Institute for Laws, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP)
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