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9780511720178
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In public political deliberation, people will err and lie in accordance with definite patterns. Such discourse failure results from behavior that is both instrumentally and epistemically rational. The deliberative practices of a liberal democracy (let alone repressive or non-democratic societies) cannot be improved so as to overcome the tendency for rational citizens to believe and say things at odds with reliable propositions of social science. The theory has several corollaries. One is that much contemporary political philosophy can be seen as an unsuccessful attempt to vindicate, on symbolic and moral grounds, the forms that discourse failure take on in public political deliberation. Another is that deliberative practices cannot be rescued even on non-epistemic grounds, such as social peace, impartiality, participation, and equality. To alleviate discourse failure, this 2006 book proposes to reduce the scope of majoritarian politics and enlarge markets
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The allure of deliberation -- Rational choice and political discourse -- The epistemic argument for deliberation -- Political illiteracy : an illustration -- Discourse failure -- Patterns of political belief -- Discourse failure and cognitive psychology -- Persuasive definitions -- Discourse failure and desert -- The cost of dissent -- The rational choice framework -- Instrumental and epistemic rationality -- Rational choice and morality -- Why our argument is not ad hominem -- A note on empirical testing -- The resilience of discourse failure -- Reliable social science and opacity -- Deliberative institutions -- Good policies, bad reasons -- Shortcuts -- Deliberation, free speech, and truth -- Deliberation as a regulative ideal -- Deliberative democracy, Condorcet, and Bayes -- Symbolism in political argument -- Self-defeatingness as symbolism -- Symbolic behavior in politics -- Symbolic and causal utility: Nozick's challenge -- Symbolizing as the intended outcome -- Are self-defeating reformers rational? -- Why political deliberators appear to neglect consequences -- Discourse failure and political morality -- The moral turn -- Balancing, deontology, and the display test -- Direct involvement in evildoing -- Split responsibility -- Causal complexity in political argument -- Moral error -- Enforcement and causation -- A note on religious morality -- A note on the minimum wage and employment -- Types of discourse failure : a summary -- Non-epistemic defenses of deliberation -- Deliberation as the exercise of autonomy -- Sincerity in deliberation -- Deliberation and social conflict -- Deliberation and impartiality -- Deliberation, participation, and equality -- Is discourse failure always bad? -- Deliberation, consent, and majority rule -- Consent and reasonableness -- Deliberation, justice, and rights -- Deliberation and majority rule -- Vote indeterminacy -- The courtroom analogy -- Substantive principles and deliberative politics -- Overcoming discourse failure : voluntary communities -- A contractarian society -- Contracts and truth -- Contracts and compromise -- The paradox of contract -- Further objections and replies -- Discursive advantages of voluntary communities -- Loose ends
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ISBN 9780521862691
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ISBN 9780521175388
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Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Philosophie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511720178
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