Dr. Uğur Aytaç

Researcher
Ethiek Instituut
Philosophy
u.aytac@uu.nl

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control. The Journal of Politics. Forthcoming.

In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power. Political Theory, online first. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231205624 

Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy. Political Studies, online first. 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.