Kyle van Oosterum is a Yeoh Ting Lay (YTL) Early Career Fellow at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. He was previously a Research Fellow in Political Philosophy at the UKRI-funded Digital Speech Lab, University College London. He completed his DPhil in Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford and also studied at Cambridge and the University of St Andrews.

Up to now, his research has focused on the politics of online echo chambers, the ethics of content moderation, and the moral status of paternalism. At King’s, he will work on the moral basis of public reason liberalism and its connections to the concept of solidarity in moral and political philosophy.

You can find out more about Kyle on his website or on BlueSky @koosterum.bsky.social.

Research interests 

• Moral and political philosophy
• Paternalism
• Public reason
• Social media-polarisation
• AI ethics

Teaching interests 

• Moral philosophy
• Political philosophy
• Liberalism
• Paternalism
• AI ethics

Selected publications 

‘Confucian Harmony, Civility, and Echo Chambers’, 2025, Journal of Applied Philosophy.

'Paternalism and Exclusion', 2024, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2024.

'Impairing the Impairment Argument', 2023, Journal of Medical Ethics with Emma J. Curran (Oxford). 

'Future Selves, Paternalism and Our Rational Powers', Forthcoming, Inquiry.