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The Epistemic Circumstances of Democracy [PDF]

, 2016
Does political decision-making require experts or can a democracy be trusted to make correct decisions? Critics of democracy tend to argue that democracy cannot be trusted in this way while advocates tend to argue that it can. Both camps agree that it is the epistemic quality of the outcomes of political decision-making processes that underpins the ...
Fabienne Peter, Peter, Fabienne
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Representation, Epistemic Democracy, and Political Parties in John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar [PDF]

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2018
John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar lived at the same time and wrote about the same issues, and yet the connections between their political theories remain unexplored. Seeking to offer a comparison of both theories, this article argues that reading Mill'
Gustavo Hessmann Dalaqua
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Epistemic Democracy and Political Reconciliation [PDF]

Res Publica
Abstract Epistemic democrats argue that democracy, given the right conditions, is more likely to produce better results than a single person or a group of experts. While epistocrats mobilise knowledge against democracy, epistemic democrats seek to mobilise knowledge for democracy.
Ardila, Camilo, Ardila, Camilo ; id_orcid   +1 more
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An Epistemic Theory of Democracy

, 2018
One attractive feature of democracy is its ability to track the truth by information aggregation. The formal support for this claim goes back to Condorcet’s famous jury theorem. However, the theorem has often been dismissed as a mathematical curiosity because the assumptions on which the theorem is based are demanding.
Goodin, Robert, Spiekermann, Kai
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The Epistemic Aims of Democracy [PDF]

Philosophy Compass, 2023
Abstract Many political philosophers have held that democracy has epistemic benefits. Most commonly, this case is made by arguing that democracies are better able to track the truth than other political arrangements. Truth, however, is not the only epistemic good that is politically valuable.
Siscoe, Robert Weston
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The Epistemic Justification of Democracy [PDF]

Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2020
In the article, I am concerned with the epistemic justification of democracy: what does the epistemic justification of democracy consist of, and how can we assure that democracy indeed generates decisions of the highest epistemic quality? However, since it is impossible to speak about the epistemic justification of democracy without considering its ...
Prijić Samaržija, Snježana
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Epistemic approaches to deliberative democracy

Philosophy Compass, 2018
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive review of the major theoretical issues and findings of the epistemic approaches to deliberative democracy. Section 2 surveys the norms and ideals of deliberative democracy in relation to deliberation's ability to “track the truth.” Section 3 examines the conditions under which deliberative ...
John B. Min, James K. Wong
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Democracy, Epistemic Value, and Political Equality: a New Model of Epistemic Participatory Democracy [PDF]

, 2017
Participatory democracy is better off with a serious consideration of epistemic instrumental value and political equality. First, I argue that democracy is justified, in part, on its epistemic instrumental value. I also contend that the need to accommodate the epistemic value with the principle of equal political participation is only compatible with a
Linares Lejarraga, Sebastián
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Epistemic Perfectionism and Liberal Democracy

Social Philosophy Today, 2013
Robert Talisse’s recent attempt to justify liberal democracy in epistemic terms is in many ways a breath of fresh air. However, in the present paper we argue that his defense faces two inter-related problems. The first problem pertains to his defense of liberalism, and owes to the fact that a commitment to the folk-epistemological norms in terms of ...
Jamie T. Kelly, Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij
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The Epistemic Responsibilities of Citizens in a Democracy [PDF]

, 2021
The chapter develops a taxonomy of views about the epistemic responsibilities of citizens in a democracy. Prominent approaches to epistemic democracy, epistocracy, epistemic libertarianism, and pure proceduralism are examined through the lens of this ...
Boult, Cameron
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