Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Tension of Expert Authority in a Democratic System
There's this idea that, that there's something conspiratorial about the scientific consensus on climate change. And so I wonder, you know, to what extent then does the, does the notion of expert authority have to be authorized in a way through popular processes of criticism and challenge and contestation? To what extent does that require of democratic citizens, the people doing the contesting and the challenging,you know, a level of scientific competence?"
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