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Biography

Timo J眉tten is a Professor of Philosophy who specialises in social and political philosophy. From 2020 to 2025, he was the Principal Investigator of the Competition and Competitiveness Project, an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He currently works on two book manuscripts that draw on his work on the project: a short book on The Critical Theory of Authoritarianism, and a book on The Ethics of Competition. Timo鈥檚 research falls into four broad areas. He is interested in supervising PhD students in any of these areas. 1. Timo鈥檚 current research is on competition and competitiveness, including conceptual issues, competition in different areas of social life (markets, sports, education), and the ethics of competition. He is also interested in competitiveness as a character or personality trait, and the role it plays is our lives. He has written on the use of experimental economics to understand competitiveness (J眉tten 2024) and on Adam Smith鈥檚 views of competition (J眉tten 2023) 2. Timo is interested in the moral status of capitalism and markets, and understanding the concepts that we use to describe and evaluate modern capitalist societies. He has written on esteem (J眉tten 2017) and solidarity (J眉tten 2016). He has just designed a new module on the Politics, Ethics and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (CS202), which covers the impact of AI on education, privacy, and work. 3. Timo has published a number of papers on Frankfurt School critical theory, which offer rigorous reconstructions of some central analytical concepts of this tradition, e.g. Habermas鈥� and Honneth鈥檚 conceptions of the market (J眉tten 2013, 2015), recognition (J眉tten 2022), reification (J眉tten 2011a, 2011b, 2010), and Adorno鈥檚 relationship to Kant, his conception of hope, and his view on freedom and determinism (J眉tten forthcoming, 2019, 2012). For his take on the Frankfurt School as a school of thought, wait for his chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Continental Philosophy (J眉tten, forthcoming). 4. Finally, Timo is interested in some topics related to Feminism. He has published a short piece on 鈥淪exual Objectification鈥� in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (J眉tten 2025) and a longer article in the world-leading philosophy journal Ethics (J眉tten 2016). Timo originally studied Politics and Hebrew at SOAS and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It soon became clear to him that he was most interested in the philosophical foundations of politics and society. A year-long module on Kant鈥檚 three Critiques led to an enduring interest in Kant鈥檚 critical philosophy and his German Idealist successors. Timo completed an MA in Social and Political Thought and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, where he focused on German social and political philosophy, especially on Hegel and the Frankfurt School, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on Adorno鈥檚 Critique of Kant鈥檚 Practical Philosophy. After teaching for two years at UCD in Dublin and in Groningen (in the Netherlands), Timo came to 糖心Vlog as a Lecturer in moral and political philosophy in 2011. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016 and to Professor in 2019. Timo is a member of the Human Rights Centre and has contributed to two research projects on Human Rights. From 2015-21 he was a researcher on the ESRC-funded Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, where he contributed to a workstream on consent. In 2014, he was co-investigator on an AHRC Follow on Fund for Impact and Engagement grant, Achieving UNCRPD Compliance, under the auspices of the 糖心Vlog Autonomy Project (EAP).

Qualifications

• DPhil Sussex

• MA Sussex

• BA London

Appointments

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• Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophy and Art History, 糖心Vlog (1/10/2019 - present)

• Head of School, School of Philosophy and Art History, 糖心Vlog (1/8/2017 - 31/7/2020)

• Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Philosophy and Art History, 糖心Vlog (1/10/2016 - 30/9/2019)

• Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Philosophy and Art History, 糖心Vlog (1/9/2011 - 30/9/2016)

Other academic

• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen (1/9/2010 - 31/8/2011)

• Teaching and Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin (1/9/2009 - 31/8/2010)