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Deliberative democracy and epistemic humility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2011

Kevin Chien-Chang Wu
Kevin Chien-Chang Wu
Affiliation:
National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. [email protected]
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Abstract

Deliberative democracy is one of the best designs that could facilitate good public policy decision making and bring about epistemic good based on Mercier and Sperber's (M&S's) theory of reasoning. However, three conditions are necessary: (1) an ethic of individual epistemic humility, (2) a pragmatic deflationist definition of truth, and (3) a microscopic framing power analysis during group reasoning.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 93 - 94
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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