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Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in Philosophy
The Tension Between Political and Epistemic Authority
In your book, you make a distinction between political and epistemic authority. You say we can submit in our conduct but not in our private judgment. So that always remains this sort of tension between trusted judgment within relations of authority. And so what I wanted to do was then sort of push back against that sort of intuition a bit, you know, and get to a sense in which we can still have expert authority, but we can have it in a way that engages our judgment off the terms of the relationship itself.
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