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Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework
La sagesse collective : principes et mécanismes
Colloque des 22-23 mai 2008, organisé par l'Institut du Monde Contemporain du Collège de France, sous la direction du Professeur Jon Elster.
Intervention de David Estlund.
“In this talk, I give an overview of the argument of my new book of the same title.
Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no special expertise? Theories of the value of democracy often try to answer this question by appeal to the intrinsic value of the procedure itself, without relying on any tendency toward good decisions. In this book I argue that those approaches fail, and I develop a new approach, "epistemic proceduralism."
The authority and legitimacy of political decisions is partly owed to the fact that they were produced by procedures that could be generally accepted as having some tendency to make good decisions. Just as with verdicts in jury trials, the authority and legitimacy of a decision in a given case does not depend on the decision being good or correct in that case, but the epistemic value of the procedure is nevertheless crucial. If epistemic value were what mattered, you might wonder why those who know best shouldn't simply rule. Epistocracy, or rule of the knowers, is avoided on my theory, however. I argue that while some few probably do know best, this cannot be used in political justification unless their special expertise is acceptable to all reasonable (or"qualified) points of view. If we seek the epistemically best arrangement, so far as can be established to the wide range of qualified points of view, it will be recognizably democratic, with laws and policies actually authorized by the people subject to them”.
22/05/2008
Durée du programme :66 minute(s) et 40 secondes
Classification Dewey :Philosophie et psychologie, Interaction sociale, communication, Science politique
Conférences
Niveau :niveau Licence (LMD)
Disciplines :Sciences politiques, Collège de France – La sagesse collective : principes et mécanismes, Philosophie politique, philosophie du droit
Fiche LOM-FR :Anglais
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Producteur(s) :
C.E.R.I.M.E.S.COLLEGE DE FRANCE
Réalisateur(s) :
Marcel LECAUDEYLoïc QUENTIN
ESTLUND David
David Estlund is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Brown University. He has been teaching moral and political philosophy at Brown University since 1991.
He previously taught at University of California, Irvine, and has spent fellowship years at the Program in 4 Ethics at Harvard, and at Australian National University. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Estlund's research focuses on ethics and social/political philosophy, particularly the areas of liberalism, justice, and democracy. He has served as editor for the collection, Democracy (Blackwell, 2002) and author of
Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework (Princeton University Press, 2008).
His papers include: "Democracy Without Preference," The Philosophical Review, July 1990, pp. 397-423.
"Beyond Fairness and Deliberation: The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority," in Deliberative
Democracy, James Bohman and William Rehg, eds., MIT Press, 1997. “Political Quality,” Social
Philosophy and Policy, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 127-60, and “Political Authority and The
Tyranny of Non-Consent,” Philosophical Issues, 15, 2005. Estlund received his B.S. in art, and M.A.
and Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
