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Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy.
- Source :
- Social Epistemology; Mar2019, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p183-192, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
-
Abstract
- Taking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against Democracy (Brennan 2016) as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses: (1) There is No Such Thing as Superior Political Judgement; (2) There Is No Such Thing as Uncontroversial Social Scientific Knowledge. I conclude that social science experts need to be kept in check, not given more power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DEMOCRACY
NONFICTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02691728
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Epistemology
- Publication Type :
- Review
- Accession number :
- 136023587
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1577513