political-philosophy

_Political Philosophy_. forthcomingWhen citizens deliberate, they aim at truth, weighing reasons and evidence to figure out which decisions are correct. Many theorists infer that the justification of deliberative democracy must therefore be, at least partly, epistemic. I call this the “epistemic inference” and argue that it fails. It conflates the aim of an activity (i.e., what participants inten…

Asha Leena Bhandary, recently professor of philosophy at University of Iowa, has moved to Stony Brook University. Professor Bhandary works in social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of race. She is the author of Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture (2020) and Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World (2026), among other works, whic…

The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced. The list aims to “select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill.” This volume—the 45th—covers the literature from 2024. The selections are: Evan Behrle (Harvard), “Desert and Economic Interdependence” from the Journa…

In Longevity Asymmetry: Ethics, Politics, and Economics of Biological Stratification. Ho Chi Minh City: Zenodo. 2026Every institution designed to limit political power has relied, without needing to say so, on one fact that made no other guarantee necessary: that whoever held power would eventually die, and power would pass to someone else. This essay examines what happens to that reliance once a…

In Longevity Asymmetry: Ethics, Politics, and Economics of Biological Stratification. Ho Chi Minh City: Zenodo. 2026Capital has begun pricing something that had no reliable market for most of human history: additional years of biological life. Giulia Dal Maso has named the resulting configuration longevity capitalism, in which both the condition of living longer and the pursuit of longevity becom…

Various liberal authors have proposed that we all enjoy the most extensive logically possible system of rights, compatible with all others having the same identical rights. Even though this statement appears to make logical sense at first, it is actually not well-defined. In this article, I explore various questions about this claim: when is a system of rights more extensive than another? Is ther…

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This article offers a philosophical examination of the transformations of liberal-pluralist democracy and of the occupation of the public space in the face of the growing algorithmic mediation and artificial intelligence. Departing from the historical trajectory that runs from the Greek Agora to the algorithm and to the projected horizon of Artificial Superintelligence, it argues that the migrati…