Democratic Authority

By David Estlund. 2009

Citations in the corpus

• Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, neutral): “From an epistemic point of view, it is often thought to lead to better group decisions (Estlund, 2009).”
• Reasoning is for Arguing: Understanding the Successes and Failures of Deliberation (2012, unknown): “The fact that we cannot know for sure whether the deliberative process yielded the right answer does not mean that we can evade the question of epistemic validity in politics (see Cohen, 1986; Estlund, 1998, 2007; Author, 2007; Martí, 2006; Raz, 1990; Talisse, 2009).”
• The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation (2016, unknown): “12 I’m not sure that there are any pure instrumentalists, but those who endorse an epistemic theory of democracy certainly emphasise this virtue (Estlund 2008; List & Goodin 2001)”