Jonathan Floyd
@jonathanfloyd.bsky.social
Professor of Political Theory working on nature/methods/purposes of political philosophy. Chair of 'Methods of Normative Political Theory' (ECPR). Co-Chair of 'Political Philosophy' (IPSA). Personal website: https://www.drjonathanfloyd.com
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Jonathan Floyd
@jonathanfloyd.bsky.social
· Feb 25
Experimental Political Theory: Behavioural, Careful, Radical - Res Publica
On one level, the idea here is simple: organise people into small groups and see how they react to different ways of doing politics. On another, it is more challenging: evaluate different political pr...
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Well this article was a long time coming: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Can pol-philosophy be experimental? Can normative behaviourism become more pro-active and progressive? I certainly hope so! Many thanks to AliceBaderin/JanoschPrinz/SuneLaegaard & esp. ManonWestphal who aren't here...
Publication day for an excellent colleague!
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking.
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The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Publication day for an excellent colleague!
24 hours left to sign up! Don't miss out on beautiful Krakow, or indeed our beautiful methods community! Please also share/re-post if you're finding returning to the desk, after the Xmas break, a little hard given the combination of (a) following daily politics and (b) trying to catch up on marking.
⏰12 days left! Submit by Jan 9 to #ecprgc26
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Methods of Normative Political Theory
European Consortium for Political Research
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January 8, 2026 at 11:52 AM
24 hours left to sign up! Don't miss out on beautiful Krakow, or indeed our beautiful methods community! Please also share/re-post if you're finding returning to the desk, after the Xmas break, a little hard given the combination of (a) following daily politics and (b) trying to catch up on marking.
Be there or be square.
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Join us in Kraków Sept 8–11, 2026 to explore how methods shape our understanding of democracy and how methodological innovation can diagnose, defend, or rethink democratic norms.
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Methods of Normative Political Theory
European Consortium for Political Research
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January 5, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Be there or be square.
Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social
Back from a carol service where as always my mind started to wander. This year the line 'begotten not created' in Oh Come All ye Faithful set me off. Seems an apt line for much of what goes on under the rubric of AI.
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Back from a carol service where as always my mind started to wander. This year the line 'begotten not created' in Oh Come All ye Faithful set me off. Seems an apt line for much of what goes on under the rubric of AI.
For those of you planning a (well earned) long break over the next 2 weeks, bear in mind that the deadline for submitting a paper for the 2026 ECPR General Conference (Krakow in September) is Jan 9th. Please share with anyone you think might miss this! ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe...
ECPR General Conference 2026, Jagiellonian University, 8 – 11 September 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
For those of you planning a (well earned) long break over the next 2 weeks, bear in mind that the deadline for submitting a paper for the 2026 ECPR General Conference (Krakow in September) is Jan 9th. Please share with anyone you think might miss this! ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe...
Very happy/honoured to be giving a keynote at this excellent conference along with similarly excellent Chiara Cordelli. Do consider submitting a paper or sharing with your grad students. @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
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Brave New World Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2026 at Mancept @uompols.bsky.social
Call for papers:
Brave New World Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2026 at Mancept @uompols.bsky.social
Call for papers:
Brave New World 2026
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December 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Very happy/honoured to be giving a keynote at this excellent conference along with similarly excellent Chiara Cordelli. Do consider submitting a paper or sharing with your grad students. @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Read all about it: Methods newsletter out. @sunelaegaard.bsky.social @lisamherzog.bsky.social @edmundhandby.bsky.social @jleadermaynard.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social
🚀 Our December newsletter is live!
Dive into upcoming events, fresh publications & the Onora O’Neill Book Prize nominations.
👉Read it here ecpr.eu/News/News/De...
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Dive into upcoming events, fresh publications & the Onora O’Neill Book Prize nominations.
👉Read it here ecpr.eu/News/News/De...
@jonathanfloyd.bsky.social
Methods of Normative Political Theory Newsletter December 2025 #13
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Read all about it: Methods newsletter out. @sunelaegaard.bsky.social @lisamherzog.bsky.social @edmundhandby.bsky.social @jleadermaynard.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social
Reposted by Jonathan Floyd
Really looking forward to co-chairing a fantastic section with
Esma Baycan Herzog at the ECPR General Conference in Kraków! Please submit!
Esma Baycan Herzog at the ECPR General Conference in Kraków! Please submit!
📢 CFP #ecprgc26
Join us in Kraków Sept 8–11, 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social to rethink how political theory does democracy.
Our 6-panel section, led by Esma Baycan Herzog & @edmundhandby.bsky.social, invites your sharpest methodological takes!
📝 Abstracts due Jan 5 shorturl.at/uZjDX
Join us in Kraków Sept 8–11, 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social to rethink how political theory does democracy.
Our 6-panel section, led by Esma Baycan Herzog & @edmundhandby.bsky.social, invites your sharpest methodological takes!
📝 Abstracts due Jan 5 shorturl.at/uZjDX
Methods of Normative Political Theory
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Really looking forward to co-chairing a fantastic section with
Esma Baycan Herzog at the ECPR General Conference in Kraków! Please submit!
Esma Baycan Herzog at the ECPR General Conference in Kraków! Please submit!
Very interesting indeed, as you'd expect from @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social
How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens - Volume 1
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December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Very interesting indeed, as you'd expect from @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social
When enjoying a break from work this Christmas, why not read a book that helps you imagine a world in which you might not be quite as desperate for that break as you are right now? www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... (As written by @lisamherzog.bsky.social, ⭐ member of @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social)
The Democratic Marketplace — Harvard University Press
An urgent critique of the market-fundamentalist ideals undermining democratic politics, pointing the way to principled reforms.Democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. A narrow view of markets a...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
When enjoying a break from work this Christmas, why not read a book that helps you imagine a world in which you might not be quite as desperate for that break as you are right now? www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... (As written by @lisamherzog.bsky.social, ⭐ member of @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social)
Giving a talk today in Lisbon on 'What is the point of methodology in political theory?'. Do come along if curious, or, more likely, if you need somewhere to shelter from the rain: cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/progr...
Praxis Seminar – Praxis
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December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Giving a talk today in Lisbon on 'What is the point of methodology in political theory?'. Do come along if curious, or, more likely, if you need somewhere to shelter from the rain: cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/progr...
Very happy to see this experiment. Well done to all concerned.
The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky
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December 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Very happy to see this experiment. Well done to all concerned.
Reposted by Jonathan Floyd
The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky
48 hours and counting...
⏳Only 2 days left to submit for the #ECPRJS26 - deadline 10 Dec!
Don’t miss our “Between Norms and Evidence” workshop in Innsbruck, 7–10 Apr 2026
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✏️ Submit here: tinyurl.com/bd6r4nx8
@ecpr.bsky.social @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social @edmundhandby.bsky.social
Don’t miss our “Between Norms and Evidence” workshop in Innsbruck, 7–10 Apr 2026
🔗 Workshop info: shorturl.at/BZbC0
✏️ Submit here: tinyurl.com/bd6r4nx8
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Between Norms and Evidence: Connecting Normative Political Theory and Political Science
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
48 hours and counting...
Here in Lisbon it's a public holiday in honour of the immaculate conception. Makes me wonder if any philosopher ever managed such a thing, let alone an immaculate concept? Rawls tried with JAF, but as his writing went from religion>philosophy>IR, even he had to admit it was more political in the end
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Here in Lisbon it's a public holiday in honour of the immaculate conception. Makes me wonder if any philosopher ever managed such a thing, let alone an immaculate concept? Rawls tried with JAF, but as his writing went from religion>philosophy>IR, even he had to admit it was more political in the end
Perhaps the best museum in Lisbon is TheMoneyMuseum, which happens 2 be free. Excellent account of the politics/history of coins/currencies, so maybe the only thing that would improve it would b a guided tour from dear old friend @stefeich.bsky.social + signing of press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Perhaps the best museum in Lisbon is TheMoneyMuseum, which happens 2 be free. Excellent account of the politics/history of coins/currencies, so maybe the only thing that would improve it would b a guided tour from dear old friend @stefeich.bsky.social + signing of press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Now I know what I want for Christmas: This desk was used not just by Tolkien when writing LOTR, but also later belonged to Iris Murdoch: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Perhaps especially good if writing about Black or Green Knights (which they both did)
JRR Tolkien writing desk up for auction - BBC News
The author used the desk during his tenure as Merton professor of English language and literature.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Now I know what I want for Christmas: This desk was used not just by Tolkien when writing LOTR, but also later belonged to Iris Murdoch: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Perhaps especially good if writing about Black or Green Knights (which they both did)
Welcome @georgeboss.bsky.social to BlueSky! With a new book coming out (www.routledge.com/Marx-and-the...) + a Leverhulme Fellowship about 2 begin I'm sure there'll be lots of people keen to follow what he's up to e.g. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com @alixdietzel.bsky.social...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Welcome @georgeboss.bsky.social to BlueSky! With a new book coming out (www.routledge.com/Marx-and-the...) + a Leverhulme Fellowship about 2 begin I'm sure there'll be lots of people keen to follow what he's up to e.g. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com @alixdietzel.bsky.social...
The ethics of submitting to ETHICS if you have used AI (it's a big NO): www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/et/...? Of interest to @edmundhandby.bsky.social and others in @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social
Ethics: AI policy
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December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The ethics of submitting to ETHICS if you have used AI (it's a big NO): www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/et/...? Of interest to @edmundhandby.bsky.social and others in @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social
Just one week left to sign up for this marvellous event. World class research + friendliness guaranteed. Will be an excellent 2-3 days of cable cars and rising stars. @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social @sunelaegaard.bsky.social @jleadermaynard.bsky.social @apoama.bsky.social @ascherz.bsky.social
One week left to submit your abstract for #ECPRJS26 in Innsbruck (April 7-10 2026)!
Join our workshop on how empirical political science and normative theory can work together - or why they sometimes can’t.
🌍Submit by Dec10 shorturl.at/rdzGZ
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Join our workshop on how empirical political science and normative theory can work together - or why they sometimes can’t.
🌍Submit by Dec10 shorturl.at/rdzGZ
@ecpr.bsky.social @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social
Between Norms and Evidence: Connecting Normative Political Theory and Political Science
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Just one week left to sign up for this marvellous event. World class research + friendliness guaranteed. Will be an excellent 2-3 days of cable cars and rising stars. @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social @sunelaegaard.bsky.social @jleadermaynard.bsky.social @apoama.bsky.social @ascherz.bsky.social
I wonder how many (socialist-leaning) UK political philosophers will think about joining the UK's newest political party? Right now they're at the stage Macron's En Marche were at in 2017 in terms of gathering up a host of new candidates, so will be interesting 2 see the process... www.yourparty.uk
Your Party
It’s time to build a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I wonder how many (socialist-leaning) UK political philosophers will think about joining the UK's newest political party? Right now they're at the stage Macron's En Marche were at in 2017 in terms of gathering up a host of new candidates, so will be interesting 2 see the process... www.yourparty.uk
Final gathering this term of our Bristol pol theory/philosophy group & have now entirely lost my noticeboard 2 handouts on e.g. statelessness, marginalisation, love, universalism, childhood, & even supreme court judgements. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Final gathering this term of our Bristol pol theory/philosophy group & have now entirely lost my noticeboard 2 handouts on e.g. statelessness, marginalisation, love, universalism, childhood, & even supreme court judgements. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social
Tom Stoppard: playful philosophy in plays full of philosophy. Would be nice to go and see one or two of these with a few Bristol colleagues, e.g. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social theconversation.com/its-wanting-...
‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers
One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as well read and inquisitive as he was.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Tom Stoppard: playful philosophy in plays full of philosophy. Would be nice to go and see one or two of these with a few Bristol colleagues, e.g. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social theconversation.com/its-wanting-...