Titlebook: Does Truth Matter?; Democracy and Public Raf Geenens,Ronald Tinnevelt Book 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Democracy.Epistem

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Truth and Public Space: Setting Out Some Signpostspistemic attitudes. First there is the stance that comes with solipsistic thought, and which is characterized by unrestricted yet dangerously claustrophobic freedom. Then there is the looser attitude that one enjoys in conversation with friends and peers, where uncharted ideas can be explored and on

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Epistemic Proceduralism and Democratic Authorityr solving political problems. Some approaches try this by appealing to a fascinating mathematical result — Condorcet‘s ‘jury theorem’ — but there are fatal obstacles to applying that result to the case of democracy, as I will argue. Epistemic procedural-ism, as we will see, only requires modest epis

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Truth and Democracy: Pragmatism and the Deliberative Virtues, that the link between truth and politics is sustainable only if we adopt the conception of truth of a certain kind of pragmatist. This kind of pragma-tist sees truth as being the best that human inquirers could do. We will then be in a position to see, in Sects. 3.4 and 3.5, how a model of the dem

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