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Thursday, April 23, 2020
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PGT Interim Exam BoardS2.77 |
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Knowledge and Understanding SeminarBy ZoomSpeaker: Michael Hannon (Nottingham) Title: 'Empathetic Understanding in Politics' Mike will present his paper "Empathetic Understanding in Politics".
Abstract:
"Epistemic democracy is standardly characterized in terms of “aiming at truth”. This presupposes a veritistic conception of epistemic value, according to which truth is the fundamental epistemic goal. I will raise two objections to the standard (veritistic) account of epistemic democracy, focusing specifically on deliberative democracy. I then propose a version of deliberative democracy that is grounded in non-veritistic epistemic goals. In particular, I argue that deliberation is valuable because it facilitates empathetic understanding. I claim that empathetic understanding is an epistemic good that doesn’t have truth as its primary goal."
Mike will talk for around 30 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A session after a quick break. The whole session will probably run a bit shorter than usual, ending at approximately 4.30pm.
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