Democracy and truth
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Democracy and truth

The conflict between political and epistemic virtues

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eBook - ePub

Democracy and truth

The conflict between political and epistemic virtues

About this book

The book explores the latest debates in the field of social epistemology, concerning epistemic justification of democracy. On the one side, we find those who support a standard approach, assuming that democratic legitimacy must be grounded on the production of epistemically high-quality decisions (true, truth-sensitive, truth-conductive, correct, justified, rational, epistemically responsible and so on). On the other side, there are those who don't deem epistemic justification as either necessary or conducive to democratic legitimacy, and those who accept the necessity of the epistemic justification of democracy while rejecting its reduction to the production of true or justified decisions. Fundamentally, this range of positions is highly influenced by their respective stances regarding the status of experts within the democratic decision-making process. This book offers both a unique perspective on this debate and registers the challenge of a new discipline of applied, 'real world' epistemology.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. 1. Social Epistemology
  3. 2. Extended Epistemology and Hybrid Virtues
  4. 3. Epistemic Justification of Democracy
  5. 4. Democracy and Procedures: do Democratic Procedures Insure Epistemic Quality?
  6. 5. Democracy and the Epistemic Value of Consensus
  7. 6. Reliabiliy Democracy and the Role of Experts in a Democratic Society
  8. Bibliography