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The Epistemology of Democracy
Barnes and Noble
The Epistemology of Democracy
Current price: $160.00
Barnes and Noble
The Epistemology of Democracy
Current price: $160.00
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The volume is structured into three parts, each offering five chapters. The first part,
, covers the crisis of democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, public epistemic vices, misinformation and disinformation, civic ignorance, and the lacking quantitative case for democratic decision-making. The second part,
, discusses the role of hope and positive emotions in rebuilding democracy, proposes solutions to myside bias, and criticizes dominant epistocratic approaches to forming political administrations. The third and final part,
, assesses whether we genuinely require emotional empathy to understand the perspectives of our political adversaries, discusses the democratic tension between mutual respect for others and a quest for social justice, and evaluates manifold top-down and bottom-up approaches to policy making.