Spiekermann, Kai

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Article

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2026). What are social norms? Economics and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267126100704 [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai (2025). Benson, Jonathan. Intelligent democracy answering the new democratic scepticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $90.00 (cloth). Ethics, 135(4), 768 - 773. https://doi.org/10.1086/735380

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2025). Deliberation and the wisdom of crowds. Economic Theory, 79(2), 603 - 655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-024-01595-4 picture_as_pdf

Niesen, Peter, Spiekermann, Kai, Herzog, Lisa, Girard, Charles, Vogelmann, Frieder (2024). Does diversity trump ability? Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 65(4), 785 - 805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-024-00550-1 picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai (2022). Good reasons for losers: lottery justification and social risk. Economics and Philosophy, 38(1), 108 - 131. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267121000043 picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai (2020). Why populists do well on social media. Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 12(2), 50 - 71. https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.12.02.203 picture_as_pdf

Slavny, Adam, Spiekermann, Kai, Lawford-Smith, Holly, Axelsen, David V. (2020). Directed reflective equilibrium: thought experiments and how to use them. Journal of Moral Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243_20203008 picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai, Slavny, Adam, Axelsen, David V., Lawford-Smith, Holly (2020). Big data justice: a case for regulating the global information commons. Journal of Politics, 0(0), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1086/709862 picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai (2020). Epistemic network injustice. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 19(1), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X19872505 picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai (2020). Group duties: their existence and their implications for individuals. Mind, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzaa004 [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai (2017). Book review: reduction of surprise: some thoughts on Dowding's conception of explanation. Political Studies Review, 15(2), 187-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917693641

Spiekermann, Kai, Weiss, Arne (2016). Objective and subjective compliance: a norm-based explanation of 'moral wiggle room'. Games and Economic Behavior, 96, 170-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2015.11.007

Goodin, Robert E., Spiekermann, Kai (2015). Epistemic solidarity as a political strategy. Episteme, 12(4), 439-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2015.29

Spiekermann, Kai (2014). Small impacts and imperceptible effects: causing harm with others. Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 38(1), 75-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/misp.12017

Spiekermann, Kai (2014). Buying low, flying high: carbon offsets and partial compliance. Political Studies, 62(4), 913-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12044

List, Christian, Spiekermann, Kai (2013). Methodological individualism and holism in political science: a reconciliation. American Political Science Review, 107(4), 629-643. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055413000373

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2013). Independent opinions? On the causal foundations of belief formation and jury theorems. Mind, 122(487), 655-685. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzt074

Spiekermann, Kai (2013). Book review: Framing democracy: a behavioral approach to democratic theory, Jamie Terence Kelly. Ethics, 123(3), 568-572. https://doi.org/10.1086/670201

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2013). Epistemic democracy with defensible premises. Economics and Philosophy, 29(1), 87-120. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267113000096

Goodin, Robert E., Spiekermann, Kai (2012). Epistemic aspects of representative government. European Political Science Review, 4(3), 303-325. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773911000245

Spiekermann, Kai, Goodin, Robert E. (2012). Courts of many minds. British Journal of Political Science, 42(3), 555-571. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712341100041X

Spiekermann, Kai (2011). Book review: Beyond humanity, by Allen Buchanan. Revista de Direito Sanitário, 12(1), 293-302.

Spiekermann, Kai (2010). Judgement aggregation and distributed thinking. AI and Society, 25(4), 401-412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-010-0273-7

Spiekermann, Kai (2009). Sort out your neighbourhood: public good games on dynamic networks. Synthese, 168(2), 273-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9424-5

Spiekermann, Kai (2008). Reply: clubbish justice. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 7(4), 447-453. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X08095755

Spiekermann, Kai (2007). Translucency, assortation, and information pooling: how groups solve social dilemmas. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 6(3), 285-306. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X07081300

Book

Goodin, Robert E., Spiekermann, Kai (2018). An epistemic theory of democracy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823452.001.0001

Chapter

Spiekermann, Kai (2022). Irreversible loss. In Gardiner, S. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics . Oxford University Press. [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Spiekermann, Kai, Dietrich, Franz (2021). Jury theorems. In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy . Stanford University Press.

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2020). Social epistemology. In Knauff, M. & Spohn, W. (Eds.), The Handbook of Rationality . MIT Press. [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2019). Jury theorems. In Fricker, M., Graham, P. J., Henderson, D., Pedersen, N. & Wyatt, J. (Eds.), The Routledge companion to social epistemology (pp. 386-396). Routledge. picture_as_pdf

Goodin, Robert E., Spiekermann, Kai (2018). Epilogue: what about Trump and Brexit? In Goodin, R. E. & Spiekermann, K. (Eds.), An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (pp. p. 322). Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf

List, Christian, Spiekermann, Kai (2016). The Condorcet jury theorem and voter-specific truth. In McLaughlin, B. P. & Kornblith, H. (Eds.), Goldman and His Critics (pp. 219-234). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118609378.ch10

Spiekermann, Kai (2016). Four types of moral wriggle room: uncovering mechanisms of racial discrimination. In Fricker, M. & Brady, M. S. (Eds.), The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives . Oxford University Press.

Spiekermann, Kai (2013). Judgement aggregation and distributed thinking. In Cowley, S. J. & Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (Eds.), Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice (pp. 31-51). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5125-8_3

Peter, Fabienne, Spiekermann, Kai (2011). Rules, norms, and commitment. In Jarvie, I. C. & Zamora-Bonilla, J. (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science . Sage Publications Ltd..

Spiekermann, Kai (2009). What the neighbours think: state-building, esteem and political culture. In Raue, J. & Sutter, P. (Eds.), Facets and Practices of State-Building . Brill Academic Publishers.

Thesis

Spiekermann, Kai (2008). Norms and games: realistic moral theory and the dynamic analysis of cooperation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.

Working paper

Goodin, Robert E., Spiekermann, Kai (2014). Epistemic solidarity as a political strategy. (Working paper). Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Spiekermann, Kai, Weiss, Arne (2013). Objective and subjective compliance: how 'moral wiggle room' opens. (Working paper). Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2010). Epistemic democracy with defensible premises. (Working papers). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dietrich, Franz, Spiekermann, Kai (2010). Independent opinions? (Working papers). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Goodin, Robert E., Spiekermann, Kai (2010). Epistemic aspects of representative government. London School of Economics and Political Science.