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This article deciphers the apparent paradox of democratic citizenship in Western societies that are deeply affected by digital technologies. This paradox of digital citizenship, for short, consists in the fact that the contemporary literature suggests that digital...

Call for Papers of the next meeting of the European Seminars in Philosophy of Education, held at the American University of Paris, June 4 & 5, 2026, on the topic of Fragile Futures: Technology, Responsibility, and the Idea of Education.   The deadline for...

L'atelier de théorie politique Paris (ATPP) is a forum open to a wide range of approaches to political theory and philosophy, promoting the argumentative testing of current thinking at the frontier between political science, social science, and normative philosophy. A...

This article defines and defends three Rawlsian rationales for a cultural turn in education for democratic citizenship within digitized societies. Due to the importance of political culture for realizing deliberative democracy, it is misguided to hold that a primary...

The founding meeting of the European Seminars in Philosophy of Education will be held at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 3-4, 2025, on the topic of Philosophy of Education: Rethinking European Traditions. What are the European...

L’atelier de théorie politique Paris (ATPP) est un lieu ouvert à diverses approches de la théorie et de la philosophie politiques, qui valorise la mise à l’épreuve argumentée de réflexions actuelles, situées à la frontière des sciences politiques, des sciences...

Published (online first) in the Journal of Philosophy of Education. Abstract: On Will Kymlicka’s conception of multicultural citizenship, group membership enables personal autonomy by way of providing individuals with meaningful options. Many educational and political...

Co-edited with my AUP colleague Stephen W. Sawyer for Democratic Theory. The special issue is the culmination of a lecture series and workshop of the Demos 21 series of AUP's Center for Critical Democracy Studies.

My article "The Global Crisis and the Psychological Feasibility of Internationalism" is part of the Social Philosophy and Policy special issue on Global Crises, edited by Allen Buchanan. In this article I revisit the motivational critique of contemporary conceptions...

The article is published in the Journal of International Political Theory. Here's the abstract: Over the past two decades the academic literature on global distributive justice has generated a proliferation of positions regarding the question of how to conceive a...

There is no democracy without responsible deliberation. Deliberation is not just a respectful discussion without mutual recognition of individual and institutional responsibilities. The book Responsible Deliberation Between Conversation and Consideration discusses the...

A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are cause for profound anxiety. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. However, a new generation of activists is...

Marcos Nobre is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Senior Researcher and former President of the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap), Principal Investigator of the Maria Sybilla Merian Centre...

Chinese philosophy is commonly perceived by Western readers as either spiritual contemplation or a way of life, hence is linked more to culture than a philosophical tradition. In Introduction à la philosophie chinoise: penser en idéogrammes, Yu-Jung Sun demonstrates...

On October 11th, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will host Professors Isabelle Aubert (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität) for “Solidarity in Polarized Times,” an event which will bring both thinkers together for a discussion of notions...

Democratic education is central to the functioning and flourishing of modern multicultural democracies, and yet it is subject to increasing public controversy and political pressure. Waning public trust in government institutions, sustained attacks on democratic...

Background: The rise of authoritarian leadership and ideologies in Europe and beyond challenges the very basis of liberal democratic societies and their universities. Simultaneously, the weaknesses of liberal democratic institutions are visible in the decline of...

In 2016, the United Nation’s General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution regarding ‘The Promotion, Protection and Enjoyment of Human Rights on the Internet’. At the heart of this resolution is the UN’s concern that “rights that people have offline must also be...

This book asks what distinctive contributions political philosophers might make when reflecting on obvious moral failures in public policy. Shmuel Nili earned his PhD in political science at Yale University (2016). Nili's work focuses on links between domestic and...

What kind of education is needed for democracy? How can education respond to the challenges that current democracies face? This unprecedented Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important ideas, issues, and thinkers within democratic education. Its...

The central aim of Peter Hägel’s Billionaires in World Politics is to challenge the assumption that private individuals lack agency and power in world politics – an assumption that is widely shared in the field of International Relations. Hägel’s methodological...

My article on global educational justice in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Education (London: Routledge), edited by Randall Curren, came out in October of 2022.

My article on challenges to political autonomy education in contemporary public spheres was published in a special issue of On Education, edited by Anne Rohstock,  in September of 2022.

Liberal Democratic Education: A Paradigm in Crisis is the first volume of the series Philosophy of Education – Debates and Constellations (Leiden: Brill) – it came out in April of 2022.

Event recaps of the lecture series on Contemporary European Democratic Theory are available.

My article on democratic education and the crisis of representative democracy was published in the Zeitschrift für Pädagogik in 2021.

Nicole Hassoun’s Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines March 10, 2022 – 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Abstract: As the COVID-19 pandemic surges around the world, for the first time many individuals in wealthy countries, such as the United States, have...

Thursday, November 29 Opening Remarks: Julian Culp (AUP) 18h00-19h30    Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Keynote Lecture: “There’s No Such Thing as a Private School” Harry Brighouse is Mildred Fish-Harnack Professor of Philosophy of Education,...

Monday 17 July Morning   8:30h Welcome VP Haar, Culp, Goldmann   9:30h Unit 1 Roberto Gargarella (University of Buenos Aires) Constitutional Conventions in Plural Societies   12:30h Lunch Buffet (Casino)   Afternoon 13:00-14:30h Campus Tour (with...

In an age of globalization and transnationalization political philosophy and theory must ask and determine to what extent, if at all, the traditional and usually state-centered understandings of concepts like justice, democracy and political emotions remain...

The international conference The Grammar of Justice was the first of a series of conferences envisaged by the Leibniz Research Group Transnational Justice. It brought together a group of almost 30 scholars from 14 countries around the world, including Brasil, Peru,...

The ‘Beyond-GDP’ discourse as to how to understand and measure social progress is no longer confined to social-scientific development researchers or other academics. Policy makers and civil society at national, inter- and transnational levels are engaged in discussing...