Dr. Uğur Aytaç

Researcher
Ethiek Instituut
Philosophy
u.aytac@uu.nl

Peer-Reviewed Articles

What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization. Philosophy & Technology, 2025, 38(26), 1-26. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00855-y  

Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control. The Journal of Politics, 2024, 86(4), 1431-1445. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1086/729938 

In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power. Political Theory, 2024, 52(4), 519-547. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231205624 

Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy. Political Studies, 2024, 72(1), 6-25. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217221096564

Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach (with Enzo Rossi). American Political Science Review, 2023, 117(4), 1215-1227. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001216 

Global Political Legitimacy and the Structural Power of Capital. Journal of Social Philosophy, 54(4), 2023, pp. 490-509. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12464

Political Realism and Epistemic Constraints. Social Theory and Practice, 48(1), 2022, pp. 1-27. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2021129145

On the Limits of the Political: The Problem of Overly Permissive Pluralism in Mouffe's Agonism. Constellations, 28(3), 2021, pp. 417-431. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12525

 

Book Reviews

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication, Onora O’Neill. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Metascience, 32, 2023, pp. 219-222.

10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites A Little More and the Masses A Little Less, Garett Jones.  Stanford University Press, 2020. Democratic Theory, 8(1), 2021, pp.  128-132.

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It), Elizabeth Anderson.  Princeton University Press, 2017. International Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs, 8, 2018, pp.  77-84.