Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy

Hannon, Michael

doi:10.1111/phpr.12624

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“…A possible example from the intellectual realm involves the qualities of a group involved in fostering and cultivating mutual empathetic understanding. Michael Hannon (2020) argues that democratic deliberation might be good for an empathetic understanding of other people. Understanding others, he writes, requires 'that we be willing to listen to them.…”

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Fake News, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Intellectual Vice

Meyer¹,

Alfano²

2022

Social Virtue Epistemology

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This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world. Relevant virtues include open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual courage, diligence in inquiry, and the like. Relevant vices include dogmatism, need for immediate certainty, and gullibility and the like.The chapters are divided into four key sections: Foundational Issues; Individual Virtues; Collective Virtues; and Methods and Measurements. And the chapters explore the most salient questions in these areas of research, including: How are individual intellectual virtues and vices affected by their social contexts? Does being in touch with other openminded people make us more open-minded? Conversely, does connection to other dogmatic people make us more dogmatic? Can groups possess virtues and vices distinct from those of their members? For instance, could a group of dogmatic individuals operate in an open-minded way despite the vices of its members?Each chapter receives commentary from two other authors in the volume, and each original author then replies to these commentaries. Together, the authors form part of a collective conversation about how we can know about what we know. In so doing, they not only theorize but enact social virtue epistemology.

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Section: Emergencementioning

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Fake News, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Intellectual Vice

Meyer¹,

Alfano²

2022

Social Virtue Epistemology

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“…Desde distintos puntos de vista, se ha considerado que la situación de deliberación democrática incentiva a los interlocutores a tomar en consideración, sinceramente, los intereses comunes y la justicia (Elster, 2003). Por tanto, se cree que el proceso democrático tiende a fortalecer la autonomía, la racionalidad, el entusiasmo y la moralidad de los participantes (Hannon, 2020). Al mismo tiempo, la clara determinación de la posición del gobierno democrático como punto medio entre el pueblo y el pueblo mismo, da lugar a un círculo virtuoso, el cual tiende a mejorar también la calidad de la legislación y la política pública.…”

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El Concepto De Democracia: Un Análisis Multidimensional

Hernández

2021

NEJ

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This article starts with the semantic decomposition of the phrase demokratos, which states a subordination of “kratos” (government) to “demos” (people), and analyzes the concept of democracy from a multi-dimensional key. In order to elaborate on the concept of democracy, an analytical distinction was established around three dimensions of government subordination to the people: democracy is understood as (i) the government of the people, (ii) the government by the people, and (iii) the government for the people or the government that serves the people. This kind of analysis can establish a good state of art for contemporary discussions on democratic theory, and determine the main ways to improve the existing democratic government systems.

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“…Some have suggested that the solution to the problem of epistemic identity involves imagining someone else's identity (Hannon 2020). Others have suggested that we should activate a superordinate identity ( Van Bavel and Pereira 2018).…”

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Bounded reflectivism and epistemic identity

Byrd

2021

Metaphilosophy

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Reflectivists consider reflective reasoning crucial for good judgment and action. Anti-reflectivists deny that reflection delivers what reflectivists seek. Alas, the evidence is mixed. So, does reflection confer normative value or not? This paper argues for a middle way: reflection can confer normative value, but its ability to do this is bound by such factors as what we might call epistemic identity: an identity that involves particular beliefs-for example, religious and political identities. We may reflectively defend our identities' beliefs rather than reflect open-mindedly to adopt whatever beliefs cohere with the best arguments and evidence. This bounded reflectivism is explicated with an algorithmic model of reflection synthesized from philosophy and science that yields testable predictions, psychometric implications, and realistic metaphilosophical suggestions-for example, overcoming motivated reflection may require embracing epistemic identity rather than veiling it (à la Rawls 1971). So bounded reflectivism should be preferred to views offering anything less.

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Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy

Cited by 29 publications

References 67 publications

Fake News, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Intellectual Vice

Fake News, Conspiracy Theorizing, and Intellectual Vice

El Concepto De Democracia: Un Análisis Multidimensional

Bounded reflectivism and epistemic identity

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