Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy. (4th March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy. (4th March 2019)
- Main Title:
- Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy
- Authors:
- Reiss, Julian
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Is Part Of:
- Social epistemology. Volume 33:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Social epistemology
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0033-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 183
- Page End:
- 192
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-04
- Subjects:
- Expertise -- epistocracy -- social science -- economics -- epistemic authority
Social epistemology -- Periodicals
121 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02691728.asp ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsep20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/02691728.2019.1577513 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0269-1728
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 8318.087500
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