Deliberation and group disagreement

Broncano-Berrocal, F. and Carter, J. A. (2020) Deliberation and group disagreement. In: Broncano-Berrocal, F. and Carter, J. A. (eds.) The Epistemology of Group Disagreement. Series: Routledge studies in epistemology. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 9-45. ISBN 9780367077426 (doi: 10.4324/9780429022500-2)

Abstract

We investigate to what extent it is epistemically advantageous and disadvantageous that groups whose members disagree over some issue use deliberation in comparison to voting as a way to reach collective agreements. Extant approaches in the literature to this ‘deliberation versus voting’ comparison typically assume there is some univocal answer as to which group strategy is best, epistemically. We think this assumption is mistaken. We approach the deliberation versus voting question from a pluralist perspective, in that we hold that a group’s collective endeavor to solve an internal dispute can be aimed at different, albeit not necessarily incompatible, epistemic goals, namely the goals of truth, evidence, understanding, and epistemic justice. Different answers to our guiding question, we show, correspond to different epistemic goals. We conclude by exploring several ways to mitigate the potential epistemic disadvantages of solving intragroup disagreement by means of deliberation in relation to each epistemic goal.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Carter, Professor J Adam
• Authors: Broncano-Berrocal, F., and Carter, J. A.
• Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780367077426
• Published Online: 24 November 2020
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2021 Taylor and Francis
• First Published: First published in The Epistemology of Group Disagreement: 9-45
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
306621		A Virtue Epistemology of Trust	Joseph Carter	Leverhulme Trust (LEVERHUL)	RPG-2019-302	Arts - Philosophy