THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY

<p>As political discourse had been saturated with the ideas of "post-truth", "fake news", "epistemic bubbles", and "truth decay", it was no surprise that in 2017 <i>The New Scientist</i> declared: "Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come." Political epistemology has old roots, but is now one of the most rapidly growing and important areas of philosophy.</p><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology </i>is an outstanding reference source to this exciting field, and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 41 chapters by an international team of contributors, it is divided into seven parts:</p><ul> <li>Politics and truth: historical and contemporary perspectives</li> <li>Political disagreement and polarization</li> <li>Fake news, propaganda, and misinformation</li> <li>Ignorance and irrationality in politics</li> <li>Epistemic virtues and vices in politics</li> <li>Democracy and epistemology</li> <li>Trust, expertise, and doubt.</li> </ul><p>Within these sections crucial issues and debates are examined, including: post-truth, disagreement and relativism, epistemic networks, fake news, echo chambers, propaganda, ignorance, irrationality, political polarization, virtues and vices in public debate, epistocracy, expertise, misinformation, trust, and digital democracy, as well as the views of Plato, Aristotle, Mòzǐ, medieval Islamic philosophers, Mill, Arendt, and Rawls on truth and politics.</p><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology</i> is essential reading for those studying political philosophy, applied and social epistemology, and politics. It is also a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as international relations, law, political psychology, political science, communication studies, and journalism.</p> <p>General Introduction <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i><b>Part 1: Politics and Truth: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives </b>Introduction to Part 1 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>1. Democracy and Knowledge in Ancient Greece Tamer Nawar 2. Identifying Upward: Political Epistemology in an Early Chinese Political Theory <i>Chris Fraser </i>3. Epistemology and Politics in Islamic Philosophy <i>Tony Booth </i>4. Mill, Liberalism, and Epistemic Diversity <i>Paul Kelly </i>5. Hannah Arendt and the Role of Truth in Politics <i>Yasemin Sari </i>6. Politics, Truth, Post-truth, and Postmodernism <i>Simon Blackburn </i>7. Tyranny, Tribalism, and Post-truth Politics <i>Amanda Greene </i><b>Part 2: Political Disagreement and Polarization </b>Introduction to Part 2 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>8. The Polarization of American Politics <i>Shanto Iyengar </i>9. Politics, Deep Disagreement, and Relativism <i>J. Adam Carter </i>10. Epistemic Permissivism and Reasonable Pluralism <i>Rach Cosker-Rowland and Robert Mark Simpson </i>11. Political Disagreement: Epistemic or Civic Peers? <i>Elizabeth Edenberg </i>12. Epistemic Networks and Polarization <i>Daniel J. Singer, Patrick Grim, Aaron Bramson, Bennett Holman, Jiin Jung, and William J. Berger </i>13. Affective Polarization, Evidence, and Evidentialism <i>Emily C. McWilliams </i>14. The Point of Political Belief <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i><b>Part 3: Fake News, Propaganda, Misinformation </b>Introduction to Part 3 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>15. What is Fake News? <i>Axel Gelfert </i>16. The Cognitive Science of Fake News <i>Neil Levy and Robert M. Ross </i>17. Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, Online Communities <i>Hanna Kiri Gunn </i>18. Modelling How False Beliefs Spread <i>Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall </i>19. Regulating the Spread of Online Misinformation <i>Étienne Brown </i>20. Propaganda, Irrationality, and Group Agency <i>Megan Hyska </i><b>Part 4: Ignorance and Irrationality in Politics </b>Introduction to Part 4 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>21. Is Political Ignorance Rational? <em>Ilya Somin </em>22. Pragmatic Encroachment and Political Ignorance<em> Kenneth Boyd </em>23. Is Political Irrationality a Myth? <i>Jeffrey Friedman </i>24. The Irrational Attempt to Impute Irrationality to One’s Political Opponents <i>Keith E. Stanovich </i>25. Asymmetrical Irrationality: Are Only Other People Stupid? <i>Robin McKenna </i><b>Part 5: Epistemic Virtues and Vices in Politics </b>Introduction to Part 5 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>26. Epistemic Vices, Ideologies and False Consciousness <i>Quassim Cassam </i>27. Engaging Closed-mindedly with your Polluted Media Feed <i>Heather Battaly </i>28. Virtues and Vices in Public and Political Debate <i>Alessandra Tanesini </i>29. Vices of the Privileged and Virtues of the Oppressed in Epistemic Group Dynamics <i>José Medina </i>30. Epistemic Corruption and Political Institutions <i>Ian James Kidd </i><b>Part 6: Democracy and Epistemology </b>Introduction to Part 6 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>31. An Epistemic Argument for Democracy <i>Hélène Landemore </i>32. In Defense of Epistocracy: Enlightened Preference Voting <i>Jason Brennan </i>33. A Pragmatist’s Epistemic Argument for Democracy <i>Robert B. Talisse </i>34. Epistemic Norms of Political Deliberation <i>Fabienne Peter </i>35. The Epistemic Responsibilities of Citizens in a Democracy <i>Cameron Boult </i>36. The Epistemic Case for Non-Electoral Forms of Democracy <i>Alexander Guerrero </i><b>Part 7: Trust, Expertise, and Doubt </b>Introduction to Part 7 <i>Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder </i>37. The Role of Scientific Expertise in Democracy <i>Heather Douglas </i>38. Experts, Public Policy and the Question of Trust <i>Maria Baghramian and Michel Croce </i>39. Testimony, Deference, and Value <i>Hallvard Lillehammer </i>40. The Skeptic and the Climate Change Skeptic <i>Alex Worsnip</i> 41. Online Trust and Distrust <i>Mark Alfano and Emily Sullivan. </i><i>Index</i></p>