Robin Douglass
Professor of Political Theory · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy · King's College London
Quick answer: Robin Douglass is Professor of Political Theory at King's College London. Robin Douglass shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Robin would welcome PhD applicants interested in political theory/history of political thought, especially focusing on: History of modern political thought, especially 17-18th century; Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Mandeville, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Sophie de Grouchy, Judith Shklar (amongst others); Liberalism.
Research interests
Politics
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2023] Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability (Princeton University Press, 2023).
[2023] ‘Cruelty, injustice, and the liberalism of fear’, Political Theory 51, no. 5 (2023), 790–813.
[2023] ‘A moral philosophy for commercial society?’, in Interpreting Adam Smith: Critical Essays, ed. Paul Sagar (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 124–41.
[2024] ‘Archibald Campbell, critic of Hobbes’, Hobbes Studies 37, no. 2 (2024), 131–56.
[2024] ‘Bernard Mandeville’ (with Mikko Tolonen), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (2024).
[2024] ‘Egalitarian sympathies? Adam Smith and Sophie de Grouchy on inequality and social order’, European Journal of Philosophy 32, no. 1 (2024), 17–31.
[2024] ‘Rousseau’s republican citizenship: The moral psychology of The So
Frequently asked questions
Is Robin Douglass hiring PhD students at King's College London?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Robin Douglass's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Robin would welcome PhD applicants interested in political theory/history of political thought, especially focusing on: History of modern political thought, especially 17-18th century; Thomas Hobbes, .
What does Robin Douglass research?
Politics
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