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#727 Robert Talisse: Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Democracy, and Liberalism

The Dissenter

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Is the Media a Branch of Government?

The instruments by which we gather these data about voter ignorance are too brute to capture the difference between true belief, false belief, right? True belief without justification, false belief with justification,false belief without justification. That still seems to me to be somebody who is ignorant in a certain sense, but not in the same sense as the other two. The way I read the data collection methods, it doesn't code for any of that. And so, last point, if I'm right about all that, the normative upshot, the prescription seems to him to also be under determined.

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