Kyle van Oosterum

 Bio

I'm a DPhil(PhD) in Philosophy candidate at the University of Oxford, a graduate scholar at the Institute for Ethics in AI  and an affiliate with the MINT Lab at ANU. My thesis supervisors are Professor John Tasioulas and Professor Neil Levy. 

I am also a Research Fellow in Platform Governance at UCL's Digital Speech Lab.

Thesis Summary

Generally, I work in ethics and political philosophy. The title of my thesis is Echo Chambers and Political Philosophy. My thesis provides a politically liberal diagnosis and prescription of the problems posed by echo chambers. Along the way, I defend (Rawlsian) political liberalism, a novel sufficientarian ideal of political influence, an account of how social media can bolster our self-respect and an original account of 'reparative civility'.

Publications & CV

1. ‘Confucian Harmony, Civility and Echo Chambers’ Link  

Journal of Applied Philosophy (Forthcoming)

2. 'Future Selves, Paternalism and Our Rational Powers' Link.

Inquiry (Forthcoming). 

3. 'Automated Technologies and Artificial Intelligence' (under contract), Vikram Bhargava, Michael Kates (Eds.), An Introduction to Business Ethics: Philosophy, Policy, and Management, Routledge. Draft Paper

4. 'Paternalism and Exclusion'. Link. 

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2024). 26(3): 547-570.

5. 'Impairing the Impairment Argument', with Emma J. Curran.

Journal of Medical Ethics (2023): 50: 335-339. Link.

Public Philosophy

I'm also the co-host (with Lewis Williams) of the Philosopher's Nest podcast. Together, we interview philosophy PhD students and ask them about their work and experiences in the (weird) world of academic philosophy.