1st Edition
Technocracy and the Epistemology of Human Behavior The Debate over Power Without Knowledge
Edited By Paul Gunn
Copyright 2023
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019), Jeffrey Friedman presented a sweeping reinterpretation of modern politics and government as technocratic, even in many of its democratic dimensions. Building on a new definition of technocracy as governance aimed at solving social and economic problems, Friedman showed that the epistemic demands that such governance places on... Read more
Introduction: Political Epistemology Beyond Democratic Theory
Paul Gunn
1. Exit, Voice and Technocracy
Jonathan Benson
2. Disagreement, Epistemic Paralysis, and the Legitimacy of Technocracy
Étienne Brown and Zoe Phillips Williams
3. A Family Affair: Populism, Technocracy, and Political Epistemology
Kevin J. Elliott
4. Technocracy, Governmentality, and Post-Structuralism
Oscar L. Larsson
5. Social Science and the Problem of Interpretation: A Pragmatic Dual(ist) Approach
Adam B. Lerner
6. The Spiral of Responsibility and the Pressure to Conflict
Eric MacGilvray
7. Architects and Engineers: Two Types of Technocrat and Their Relation to Democracy
Alfred Moore
8. What Follows from the Problem of Ignorance?
Zeynep Pamuk
9. Power, Knowledge, and Anarchism
Robert Reamer
10. Why Do Experts Disagree?
Julian Reiss
11. Political Epistemology, Technocracy, and Political Anthropology: Reply to a Symposium on Power Without Knowledge
Jeffrey Friedman
Paul Gunn
1. Exit, Voice and Technocracy
Jonathan Benson
2. Disagreement, Epistemic Paralysis, and the Legitimacy of Technocracy
Étienne Brown and Zoe Phillips Williams
3. A Family Affair: Populism, Technocracy, and Political Epistemology
Kevin J. Elliott
4. Technocracy, Governmentality, and Post-Structuralism
Oscar L. Larsson
5. Social Science and the Problem of Interpretation: A Pragmatic Dual(ist) Approach
Adam B. Lerner
6. The Spiral of Responsibility and the Pressure to Conflict
Eric MacGilvray
7. Architects and Engineers: Two Types of Technocrat and Their Relation to Democracy
Alfred Moore
8. What Follows from the Problem of Ignorance?
Zeynep Pamuk
9. Power, Knowledge, and Anarchism
Robert Reamer
10. Why Do Experts Disagree?
Julian Reiss
11. Political Epistemology, Technocracy, and Political Anthropology: Reply to a Symposium on Power Without Knowledge
Jeffrey Friedman
Biography
Paul Gunn is Lecturer in Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and Associate Editor of the Critical Review.
