Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.20901/an.12.05
The division of epistemic labor in democracy
Snježana Prijić Samaržija
; Odsjek za filozofiju, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Thomas Christiano claims that one of the fundamental challenges democracy is faced with is the appropriate division of epistemic labor between citizens and experts. In this article I try to present and analyze Christiano’s solution from the perspective of social epistemology while utilizing the concepts and tools provided by this discipline. Despite fundamentally agreeing with his position, I attempt to propose a certain addition which might enrich this solution with additional epistemic and political responsibility. In the first part, I briefly elaborate on the relevance of social epistemology in discussions regarding the epistemic justification of deliberative democracy. In the second part, I contextualize Christiano’s view within discourses regarding social epistemology and identify his approach as reliability democracy due to his belief that truth-sensitive decision-making processes are ensured through the usage of reliable mechanisms (which allow for expertise to generate the epistemically best decisions possible). In the third part I attempt to provide arguments that support further elaboration of Christiano’s proposals in the direction of ensuring additional epistemic and democratic quality of decisions.
Ključne riječi
deliberative democracy; division of epistemic labor; reliability democracy; epistocracy; fundamental and derivative epistemic authority
Hrčak ID:
160886
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.6.2016.
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