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Associate Professor of Political Philosophy
Email:k.spiekermann@lse.ac.uk
Office: CON 5.17, Connaught House
Office Hours: Tuesday 16:15-18:15 (by appointmment via LSE for You)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6516
Website: kaispiekermann.net
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Biography
Dr Kai Spiekermann is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and the Doctoral Programme Director in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Among his research interests are normative and positive political theory, philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology and environmental change. He is particularly interested in applying formal methods, computational simulations, and experiments to problems in political philosophy. His recent publications have focused on mechanisms of norm avoidance, strategic ignorance and moral knowledge, on information aggregation, jury theorems and epistemic democracy, and on reductionism and holism in the social sciences. More information is available at www.kaispiekermann.net.
Research Interests
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Philosophy of the social sciences
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Normative and positive questions of moral theory and political philosophy
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Game theory and its philosophical applications
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Social epistemology; environmental change
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