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Commentary On Zenker And Yu, James B. Freeman Jun 2020

Commentary On Zenker And Yu, James B. Freeman

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Public Deliberation And Epistemic Parity In Direct Democracies, Léa Farine Jun 2020

Public Deliberation And Epistemic Parity In Direct Democracies, Léa Farine

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In a context of public-policy making, I propose to consider a fundamental norm of epistemic parity as contributing to the justification, the acceptability and the legitimacy of decisions taken through deliberative processes. I also suggest that models of semi-direct democracy, whose constitutional foundations include the possibility of deliberations among all citizens sanctioned by popular votes, promote epistemic parity.


A Theory Of Philosophical Arguments, Christoph Lumer Jun 2020

A Theory Of Philosophical Arguments, Christoph Lumer

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In the main part of the article, a new, idealizing-hermeneutic methodological approach to developing a theory of philosophical arguments is presented and carried out. The basis for this is a theory of ideal philosophical theory types developed from the analysis of historical examples (Lumer 2011b; 2020). According to this theory, the following ideal types of theory exist in philosophy: 1. descriptive-nomological, 2. idealizing-hermeneutic, 3. technical-constructive, 4. ontic-practical. These types of theories are characterized in particular by what their basic types of theses are. The main task of this article is then to determine the types of arguments that are suitable …