Giving epistocracy a Fair Hearing. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brennan, Jason
• Is Part Of: Inquiry. Volume 65:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 35
• Page End: 49
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social Sciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Philosophie -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Philosophie -- Périodiques; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2019.1663020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-174X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Thanks to Inquiry for hosting this symposium, and thanks to Ilya Somin, Robert Talisse, Gordon Allen, and Enzo Rossi for participating it. It's an honor. I'm especially grateful for their contributions because the five of us come from similar enough starting points that our debates can be productive. None of us have any patience for romantic, pie-in-the-sky depictions of democracy or for the knee-jerk dogma that all the problems of democracy can be fixed with more democracy. All are concerned about real-world practical problems. We recognize you can't counter a complaint of the form 'These institutions have these problems' by responding, 'Oh, but if everyone behaved the way my theory requires them to behave, those institutions would be fine.'