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- Title
An egalitarian challenge to increasing epistemic value in democracy.
- Authors
Müller, Julian F.; Afrouzi, Amin Ebrahimi
- Abstract
The epistemic value of a political procedure—such as democracy or a civil trial system—depends on how well it performs in arriving at decisions that are correct by some independent standard. A core assumption in the literature on epistemic democracy is that boosting the epistemic value of such a procedure makes it better overall. Even though this assumption seems innocuous (and hence has not been discussed in much detail), we will argue that it is not beyond the pale of reasonable disagreement. For it is possible to increase the epistemic value of a political procedure in ways that give rise to egalitarian objections.
- Publication
Synthese, 2023, Vol 202, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-023-04283-3