Object's details: Democracy, interpassivity, and the cognitocratic fallacy

Description

• PLMET:
  
  http://confluence.man.poznan.pl/community/display/FBCMETGUIDE
• Title:
  
  
  Democracy, interpassivity, and the cognitocratic fallacy
• Alternative title:
  
  
  Demokracja, interpasywność i błąd kognitokratyczny
• Creator:
  
  
  Chmielewski, Adam
  
• Subject and Keywords:
  
  
  cognitive fallacy
   ;
  democracy
   ;
  knowledge
   ;
  power
   ;
  cognitocracy
   ;
  political
   ;
  skill
• Abstract:
  
  
  Conceptions of deliberative democracy attach a particularly important role to the cognitive or epistemological competence of the agents of the political process. Such competence is viewed as a primary or even exclusive prerequisite qualifying one for the exercise of political power. The belief is amply illustrated by the contemporary debate between, on the one hand, the advocates of the broad participation of the people in democratic governance, and, on the other, the proponents of the deliberative ideal which presupposes that political power should be entrusted only to the people endowed with appropriate cognitive abilities. In my analysis of such cognitocratic conceptions, I stress the perils of the ascription of a prominent role to cognitive competence in the political process. In opposition to the cognitocratic approaches, both in their universalist and egalitarian, as well as elitist or meritocratic versions, I claim that they are marred by what I call the cognitocratic fallacy, and I argue that a more adequate understanding of governance in democratic systems should instead be based upon a political rather than epistemological capital. I also claim that the concept of political ability should be seen as potentially universal and that the potential may be activated through actual participation in democratic politics.
• Place of publishing:
  
  Wrocław
• Project Name:
  
  
  Porządek publiczny a walka o uznanie. Estetyka polityczna wykluczeń społecznych. Grant Narodowego Centrum Nauki nr 2020/39/B/ HS1/00706
• Financing Institution:
  
  
  Narodowe Centrum Nauki
• Project Manager:
  
  
  Chmielewski, Adam
• Data collection period:
  
  
  01 10 2020 – 01 01 2022
• Data collection technique:
  
  
  library query
   ;
  
  
  kwerenda biblioteczna
• Contact person:
  
  
  Chmielewski, Adam
• Resource Type:
  
  
  text
   ;
  
  
  tekst
• Identifier:
  
  oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:140642  ; https://doi.org/10.5840/du202232338
• Language:
  
  eng
• Access rights:
  
  
  Attribution
   ;
  
  
  Uznanie autorstwa
• License:
  
  
  Creative Commons - Attribution (CC BY 4.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en  ;
  
  
  Creative Commons - Uznanie autorstwa (CC BY 4.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pl
• Autor opisu:
  
  M.S.

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• Creation date: 2024-02-06
• Last modification date: 2024-10-10
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