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Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

New Books in Philosophy

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The Life and Times of a Political Scientist

I was born in London, grew up in Leicester. I suppose my academic career is a little bit meandering. Between studying abroad and a master's programme in politics, I did a PhD in political thought at the University of Bath. And then got a temporary job in Ireland, and then from there, I got a European Union fellowship. And to go to Vancouver for a few years to work on a project on epistemology and democracy. It's that project from which this book ultimately came. So it was another research fellowship. That takes us up to the present where you're now sitting in a brand new office. Now have a, I'm now a lecturer in political theory at the

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