Public Reason and Reliability Democracy
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https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2001012BKeywords:
Expertism, Prijić Samaržija, public reason, social epistemology, RawlsAbstract
The article starts with a sketch of Prijić Samaržija’s hybrid theory. After that, it provides an overview of the virtue epistemology theory, to which she attributes a relevant influence on her own position, as well as that of reliability democracy which constitutes her view about democratic legitimacy. Secondly, her proposal is discussed and confronted with a slightly amended version of the leading liberal democratic theory of democratic legitimacy, formulated and defended by John Rawls.
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—. (1998), “Virtue Epistemology”, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig, London: Routledge, pp. 617–621.
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27.03.2020
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Baccarini, E. (2020) “Public Reason and Reliability Democracy”, Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. Belgrade, Serbia, 31(1), pp. 12–23. doi: 10.2298/FID2001012B.
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TOWARDS A HARMONY OF EPISTEMIC AND POLITICAL VIRTUES
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