Knowledge, truth and democracy

Following on from the reflection undertaken in 2010-2011 on " The value of knowledge [1] ", in 2014-2015 on " Practical knowledge[2]" and in 2015-2016 on " Epistemic virtues [3]", aimed at elaborating a satisfactory definition of knowledge and what it commits to, the 2016-2017 lecture and seminar focused on the links that knowledge - understood primarily as an inquiry in which the agent matters as much as the truth of the content of what he believes - has with democracy, conceived fundamentally as a space of reasons. As for the three major international colloquia organized by the Chair - "Free Will and Causation", "Metaphysics of Composition" and "Certainty and Infallibility" - they highlighted the productivity of the intense research carried out since their creation by the two research groups attached to the Chair: the Groupe de recherche en épistémologie (GRÉ) and the Groupe d'études en métaphysique (GEM).

References

Program

Democracy or the space of reasons

What is the epistemic value of democracy ?

Pars destruens : what the truth is not

Truth and equality : the democratic paradox

(1) Pars destruens : what truth is not (continued) (2) Pars construens : what the concept of truth could be

Truth in politics

(1) Pars construens : what the concept of truth could be (continued) (2) The concept of democracy : historical aspects

David Estlund's epistemic proceduralism : an internal critique

The concept of democracy : from the competitive, economic or aggregative model to the deliberative model

Pragmatism, truth and democracy

Knowledge, truth and democracy : from the epistemic to the pragmatic approach

Democracy at the risk of demagoguery : the history and current state of a problem

See also

(1) Pars destruens : what truth is not (continued)
(2) Pars construens : what the concept of truth could be

(1) Pars construens : what the concept of truth could be (continued)
(2) The concept of democracy : historical aspects