Filozofija i drustvo 2020 Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages: 24-36
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2001024L
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Biological citizenship in the reliability democracy
Lekić-Barunčić Kristina (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia)
In this paper, I shall present the theoretical view on the reliability
democracy as presented in Prijić Samaržija’s book Democracy and Truth
(2018), and examine its validity through the case of the division of
epistemic labour in the process of deliberation on autism treatment
policies. It may appear that because of their strong demands, namely, the
demand for rejection of medical authority and for exclusive expertise on
autism, autistic individuals gathered around the neurodiversity movement
present a threat to the reliability democracy.
Keywords: reliability democracy, Autism Spectrum, epistemic injustice, biological citizens, experts