Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy

<p>My dissertation aims to answer two questions: (1) Is democracy epistemically valuable? (2) Is the epistemic value of democracy, if it has any, necessary for justifying its legitimacy? I argue that democracy in certain form can be epistemically valuable. However, I also argue that the episte...

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Main Author: Zhang, Sheng
Language:EN
Published: University of Missouri - Columbia 2016
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