Epistemology of Democracy

Hana Samaržija is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her papers on countering epistemic injustice and seeking epistemically high-quality alternatives to democracy have been published in Social Epistemology and other academic journals as well as in the edited book The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions (Routledge, 2022).Quassim Cassam is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

• Introduction: What the Epistemology of Democracy Is All AboutHana SamaržijaPart I: Democratic Pessimism1. Sexy but Wrong: Diversity Theorem Defenses of DemocracyJason Brennan2. A Belated Failure: Condorcet in Contemporary Epistemic ConditionsHana Samaržija3. Social Epistemic Miserliness: Populism against DemocracyNenad Miščević4. Critical Thinking and Trusting Experts in Real-life DemocraciesSnježana Prijić Samaržija5. The Dangers of DisinformationÅsa WikforssPart II: Democratic Optimism6. The Politics of Resentment: Hope, Mistrust, and PolarisationAlessandra Tanesini7. Against the Individual Virtue Approach in the Epistemology of DemocracyMarko Luka Zubčić8. Institutional Cynicism and Civic VirtueIan James Kidd9. Myside Bias in Individuals and InstitutionsKeith Stanovich10. Listening for Epistemic CommunityHanna Kiri GunnPart III: Democratic Realism11. Sensemaking, Empathy, and DemocracyQuassim Cassam12. Political Skepticism, Bias, and Epistemic ColonizationMichael P. Lynch 13. Economic Inequalities and Epistemic DemocracyIvan Cerovac14. What Political Enemies Are forRobert B. Talisse15. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Solutions to the Problem of Political IgnoranceIlya Somin