Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space
On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn’t need foundations, nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth or truth of their comprehensive conceptions of the good life. And yet we still call upon ‘truth’ when we participate in d
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Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space Edited by
RAF GEENENS Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
and RONALD TINNEVELT Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Editors Raf Geenens Catholic University of Leuven Belgium
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8848-3
Ronald Tinnevelt Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8849-0
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Acknowledgments
The initial impetus for this book was a congenial conference at the Brussels Academy Foundation in the Fall of 2005. This conference was jointly organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven) and its francophone counterpart, the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie at the Université Catholique de Louvain, under the auspices of André Van de Putte’s and Marc Maesschalck’s “IUAP” research project. We are obliged to all those who participated and who turned, in the timeframe of just a few days, the idea of a deliberative, epistemic community into a lived reality. The editors of this book owe a special debt to Katia Vanhemelryck, who was responsible for the seamless organization of this conference and without whose inspiration and efforts this collection of essays would never have seen the light. For all practical matters we have been happy to count on Renée Köhler-Ryan, on Anita van der Linden-Rachmat at Springer, and on Stefan Mertens who, as always, managed to track down even the most obscure scholarly sources. Additional support for the production of this book was kindly provided by the Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy at Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy.
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Contents
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Truth and Public Space: Setting Out Some Signposts .......................... Raf Geenens and Ronald Tinnevelt
Part I
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The Epistemic Value of Democracy
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Epistemic Proceduralism and Democratic Authority ........................... David Estlund
3
Truth and Democracy: Pragmatism and the Deliberative Virtues ................................................................................. Cheryl Misak
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Folk Epistemology and the Justification of Democracy ....................... Robert B. Talisse
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Truth and Power in Modern Politics ...................................................... Philippe Raynaud
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Part II
Institutionalizing Democracy
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Truth and Trust in Democratic Epistemology ....................................... Matthew Festenstein
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The People Versus the Truth: Democratic Illusions ............................. Glen Newey
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Part III 8
The Phy
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