Dr. Wouter Wiersma

Wouter Wiersma is an LAS lecturer. He holds a BSc in Economics and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Groningen. He continued his education with an MA and a PhD in Philosophy. His areas of specialization are social and political philosophy, critical theory, and German idealism (especially G.W.F. Hegel).

• 2025: PhD in Philosophy, University of Groningen. Dissertation: Social Freedom and Emancipatory Interests: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Critical Theory
• 2022-2023: Visiting researcher, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2022-2023: Visiting researcher, Chair of Social Philosophy and Critical Theory, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• 2020: Master of Arts in Philosophy, University of Groningen
• 2019: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University in New York

Publications

• Wiersma, W. (2026). Progress, Objectivism, and Philosophy of History: the Problem of Progress in Critical Theory. European Journal of Philosophy, e70066. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70066
• Wiersma, W. (2025). Alienation as a Social Pathology: Examining Jaeggi’s Concept of Alienation, Journal of Social Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12604

Wouter teaches LAS courses in Political Theory and Philosophy.