I’m a Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. I work in democratic theory, the philosophy of the social sciences and topics relating to politics, philosophy and ecomomics (PPE) more generally. Among my research interests are group decisions, social epistemology (and especially epistemic justifications of democracy), the ethics of environmental change, and the methodology of political theory and political science.
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k.spiekermann@lse.ac.uk
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News
Are you thinking about a PhD? More information here.
Please see notes for our new MSc cohort here.
I am a research associate at the NSF RCN grant for "Augmenting Intelligence through Collective Learning". Work on this will begin soon.
I am proud to join the editorial board of the new journal Political Philosophy.
LSE won a transformational grant from the Open Society Foundation on Cohesive Capitalism. I will work with Alex Voorhoeve and Richard Bradley on two projects, one on cohesion and deliberation, the other on protection against severe uncertainty. The overall project is led by Tim Besley and directed by Daniel Chandler.
The Handbook of Rationality is now open access!
If you are considering applying for a PhD and are thinking of me as your supervisor, please read this first.
My colleague Bruno Leipold and I organized an “Anne Phillips Fest” to mark the retirement of our outstanding colleague.
My article Good Reasons for Losers is now available with open access, courtesy of LSE.
Together with Franz Dietrich I have finished the the entry “Jury Theorems” for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Robert E. Goodin and Kai Spiekermann (2018). An Epistemic Theory of Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Selected Publications