Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Epistemic Virtue of the Average Anti-Vaxxer
The average anti-vaxxer knows more about the vaccines than your average citizen. They exercise a certain level of epistemic virtue that then gets subverted by a tendency towards conspiratorial accounts of their critics, right? I mean, that seems to be the, something goes wrong somewhere, but it's not in the information gathering or it's not, they know stuff about how vaccines work. And so it's, it's,. it's a, maybe that is different from, from the client, from the climate change denial group.
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