Recent Posts

• The strike: a message for my students
• Why so many UK academics are striking
• Cognitive corruption and deliberative democracy
• History of Political Thought teaching this year
• Thought experiments: scientific parallels
• My top 10 Hobbes articles
• The methodology of political theory: can political science help?
• Causality symposium at King’s College London
• ‘Methods in Analytical Political Theory’ sent to Cambridge University Press
• Talk at NCH: ‘History, Political Theory and Philosophy: Different Questions, Different Answers?’
• Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague
• Call for Papers: Methods in Political Theory, at ECPR General Conference, Prague, 7-10 Sept 2016
• A new kind of self-interest
• My most rewarding term of teaching ever
• Disappointing (non-)response by Arthur Melzer to my and other people’s criticisms
• CSI Cambridge: history of political thought as detective-work
• The use and misuse of history of political thought for contemporary purposes
• Bashing UCL – but only when it’s funny
• Because that’s what women do: the dangers of stereotypes in kids’ toys
• A bit of Bentham comedy