Kyle van Oosterum

About

I am a Research Fellow at King's College London in the Dickson Poon School of Law. Before King's, I was a Research Fellow at University College London. And before that I completed a DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford.

Here's my CV. Email: kvophilosophy[@]gmail.com

Research

I work mainly in ethics and political philosophy.

In ethics, I'm working on paternalism, content-moderation on social media and AI. In political philosophy, I'm working on autonomy, civility, echo chambers, and liberalism.

Publications

Echo Chambers in Political Epistemology

Philosophy Compass, under contract.

Autonomy, Nudges, and Scaffolding

Philosophia, 2026.

‘Confucian Harmony, Civility and Echo Chambers’

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2025.

'Future Selves, Paternalism and Our Rational Powers'

Inquiry, 2024.

'Paternalism and Exclusion'.

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2024.

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

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023.

Works-in-Progress

On the ethics of content-curation (under review)
On political influence online (under review)
On advisory AI (w/Jen Semler).

Public Philosophy

I write philosophy and politics essays on Substack --> 'Unchambered'.

From 2022-2025 I co-hosted the Philosopher's Nest podcast (with Lewis Williams). Together, we interviewed philosophy PhD students and asked them about their research and experiences in the (weird) world of academic philosophy.

I've also appeared on UCL's Uncovering Politics Podcast talking about my paper on echo chambers and civility.

Book Chapters

‘The Duty to Amplify: Social Media, Hate, and Counterspeech’ (under contract) (with Jeffrey Howard) in Oxford Volume on Hate Speech (Title TBD), edited by Robin Jeshion.
‘Civility, Trust, and Trustworthiness’ (under contract), The Oxford Handbook on Civility. Oxford University Press. Edited by Matteo Bonotti, Nancy Snow and John Symons.
'Automated Technologies and Artificial Intelligence' (forthcoming), Vikram Bhargava, Michael Kates (Eds.), An Introduction to Business Ethics: Philosophy, Policy, and Management, Routledge.

Teaching

At KCL, I will be lecturing for the Master of Laws (LLM) course on 'Democracy, Technology, and Society.'

At Oxford, I gave lectures and tutorials on:

Moral Philosophy
Theory of Politics
Ethics of AI
Practical Ethics
Ethics of Paternalism (co-designed lecture series)

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