Kai Spiekermann

Professor Kai Spiekermann holds the position of Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on epistemic democracy, social epistemology, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He employs formal methods, computational models, and experiments to address normative and positive questions in political theory.

Key research interests include mechanisms of norm avoidance, strategic ignorance, epistemic democracy (e.g., jury theorems), information aggregation, and environmental ethics. He has received the APSA IKP Best Book Award for An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (2018), which explores how democratic institutions can enhance collective wisdom. His work bridges analytical political philosophy with empirical social science.

Professor Spiekermann is involved in major research initiatives, including the NSF-funded 'Augmenting Intelligence through Collective Learning' project and the Open Society Foundation's 'Cohesive Capitalism' grant. He also serves on the editorial board of the journal Political Philosophy.

His teaching focuses on political theory, social epistemology, and PPE. Currently supervising six doctoral students, he emphasizes analytical approaches that integrate political philosophy with game theory and social choice theory.