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Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1075-1091

The politics of truth: A critique of Peircean deliberative democracy

Author keywords

Cheryl Misak; Deliberative democracy; Pluralism; Pragmatism; Robert B. Talisse; Truth

Indexed keywords


EID: 78049375294     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453710379031     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (17)

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    • In Truth, Politics, Morality,Misak argues that this was because Peirce was a non-cognitivist in ethics, holding that ethical questions are not truth-apt but are rather simply a matter of social convention. She subsequently revised this position, suggesting that he should be taken to be just as committed to truth in science as in ethics.
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    • The point is developed in ch. 5 in the revised edition of Misak's, expanded paperback edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press
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    • To borrow loosely from Popper, we might say the openness to self-criticism and the "falsification" of even our basic judgements embodies a peculiarly liberal attitude
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    • Macedo's word 'peculiarly' neatly implies both 'distinctive' and 'strange': many people would find it odd to make a virtue of being willing to disown one's convictions as readily as Talisse and Misak propose.
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    • Examples of 'extreme' but true beliefs include belief in the immorality of racism, sexism and homophobia. Further, what one takes to be extreme is a function of one's sense of what is sensible or reasonable. Thus for example, a theme of the so-called Intelligent Design Movement is that, in combining creationism with evolution, it is more reasonable than the 'extremism' of evolutionary theory which allows for no notion of the existence of God. However, extreme or not, this has no bearing on the truth of evolution and the lack of scientific evidence for Intelligent Design.
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    • This is further evidenced by the fact that different communities of inquiry tend not to address each other. One reason for this is that the degree of specialization means that competence in one area typically precludes competence in other areas. And, even when two areas overlap -for example, science and the philosophy of science - the result is sometimes mutual antipathy.
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    • Talisse gives the example of Thrasymachus who, because he was uninterested in truth and sought only power, could today safely be ignored as a deliberative partner
    • Misak, Truth, Politics, Morality, p. 149. Talisse gives the example of Thrasymachus who, because he was uninterested in truth and sought only power, could today safely be ignored as a deliberative partner.
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    • This is Fish's position. Immediately after the passage I have quoted, he writes: 'This does not mean that there is nothing to choose between them - I have already declared my choice and in unequivocal terms - but that the choice cannot be made on the basis of who uses evidence and who doesn't (that's just a version of name-calling).'
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