Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy

Social Epistemology 33 (2):183-192 (2019)
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ABSTRACTTaking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against Democracy as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses: There is No Such Thing as Superior Political Judgement; There Is No Such Thing as Uncontroversial Social Scientific Knowledge. I conclude that social science experts need to be kept in check, not given more power.

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10.1080/02691728.2019.1577513

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Against Democracy: New Preface.Jason Brennan - 2016 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes Value Judgments.Richard Rudner - 1953 - Philosophy of Science 20 (1):1-6.
Fact-value entanglement in positive economics.Julian Reiss - 2017 - Journal of Economic Methodology 24 (2):134-149.

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