The Epistemic Responsibilities of Voters: Towards an Assertion-Based Account
In this paper, I contend that voters have epistemic responsibilities because voting is best understood as an act that bears assertoric force. More precisely, voters perform what I call an act of political advocacy whereby, like an asserter who states or affirms that something is the case, they state...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2023, Volume: 20, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 111-131 |
Further subjects: | B
norms of assertion
B epistemic responsibility B Democratic theory B ethics of voting B epistemic democracy |
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