Introduction: What the Epistemology of Democracy Is All About 1. Sexy but Wrong: Diversity Theorem Defenses of Democracy 2. A Belated Failure: Condorcet in Contemporary Epistemic Conditions 3. Social Epistemic Miserliness: Populism against Democracy 4. Critical Thinking and Trusting Experts in Real-life Democracies 5. The Dangers of Disinformation 6. The Politics of Resentment: Hope, Mistrust, and Polarisation 7. Against the Individual Virtue Approach in the Epistemology of Democracy 8. Institutional Cynicism and Civic Virtue 9. Myside Bias in Individuals and Institutions 0. Listening for Epistemic Community 11. Sensemaking, Empathy, and Democracy 12. Political Skepticism, Bias, and Epistemic Colonization 13. Economic Inequalities and Epistemic Democracy 14. What Political Enemies Are for 15. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Solutions to the Problem of Political Ignorance
Biography
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.
