Kai Spiekermann

Kai Spiekermann is 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.

Education

• The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2003 — 2007)
• Lizentiat University of St.Gallen (1998 — 2003)

Companies

• Professor of Political Philosophy London School (2017)
• Lecturer in Political Philosophy London School of Economics (2009 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor for Ethics and Political Philosophy Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick (2007 — 2009)

Skills

• International Relations
• Academic Writing
• Research