Raisons politiques 81, février 2021

Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy
First Edition

Pragmatism, Truth, and Democracy - Democracy and Truth - The Pragmatist Demos and the Boundary Problem - Democracy and Epistemic Egalitarianism - The Paradoxes of Democratic Voting and the Peircean Justification of Democracy -  Epistemic Democracy Without Truth: The Deweyan Approach Read More

What do truth and democracy have to do with each other? Not much, one might think. After all, the point of democracy is that citizens are entitled to vote and to hold legislative office regardless of their knowledge, virtue, wealth or lineage. The American pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce suggests otherwise. According to Cheryl Misak and Robert Talisse, there is a strong linkage between our interests in truth and our interests in democracy: Peirce's ideas of truth support a distinctive and appealing justification of democracy based on our interests in determining whether or not our ideas are true. This justification of democracy, they claim, is preferable to alternatives efforts to justify democracy epistemically, and may prove less divisive than moral or political justifications of democracy in divided societies. This special issue examines the pros and cons of Peircean democracy.

La vérité a-t-elle à voir avec la démocratie ? A priori, pas vraiment. En démocratie le droit de vote n’est-il pas indépendant du savoir, de la vertu, de la richesse ou de le l’origine des citoyens ? Le philosophe pragmatiste américain Charles Sanders Peirce établit pourtant un lien fort entre vérité et démocratie selon Cheryl Misak et Robert Talisse : il nous offre une justification originale et séduisante de la démocratie fondée sur notre intérêt à savoir si nos idées sont vraies ou non. Préférable à d’autres justifications dites épistémiques, elle se révèle également moins clivante que ses alternatives morales ou politiques dans les sociétés divisées. Ce numéro examine les avantages et les écueils d’une lecture peircéenne de la démocratie.


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Publisher
Presses de Sciences Po
Author
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Journal
Raisons politiques
ISSN
12911941
Language
French
Publisher Category
> Political Science > Political Thought
Publisher Category
> Political Science
Publisher Category
> Politics
BISAC Subject Heading
POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE
BIC subject category (UK)
J Society & social sciences > JP Politics & government
Onix Audience Codes
06 Professional and scholarly
Title First Published
18 March 2021
Type of Work
Journal Issue

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Product Detail
1
Publication Date
18 March 2021
ISBN-13
9782724636857
Product Content
Text (eye-readable)
Extent
Main content page count : 128, Front matter page count (Roman) : 128
Code
9782724636857
Dimensions
15.5 x 24 cm
Weight
190 grams
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

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Contents


CHERYL MISAK AND ROBERT B. TALISSE, Pragmatism, Truth, and Democracy

ANNABELLE LEVER, Democracy and Truth

MATTHEW FESTENSTEIN, The Pragmatist Demos and the Boundary Problem

DOMINIK GERBER, Democracy and Epistemic Egalitarianism 

VALERIA OTTONELLI, The Paradoxes of Democratic Voting and the Peircean Justification of Democracy

MICHAEL FUERSTEIN, Epistemic Democracy Without Truth: The Deweyan Approach

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