Ignorance and Irrationality in Politics

June 10, 2019 - June 11, 2019
Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

Nottingham
United Kingdom

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Nottingham University

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The workshop will explore two issues: the extent and causes of citizen ignorance, and whether (and in what ways) belief formation in politics is epistemically irrational, even if it may reflect instrumental rationality on the part of citizens.

MONDAY JUNE 10

1:00pm - 2:30pm: PUBLIC IRRATIONALITY AND EPISTEMIC PATERNALISM
Robin McKenna 
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool

2:45pm - 4:15pm: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL IGNORANCE
Ilya Somin
Professor of Law at George Mason University

4:30pm - 6:00pm: SCIENCE FUNDING AND THE MAKING OF IGNORANCE
Zeynep Pamuk
Supernumerary Fellow in Politics at St. John’s, Oxford

TUESDAY JUNE 11

10am - 11:30am: FEELING DISCOMFORT: ACTIVE IGNORANCE AND ANGER
Alessandra Tanesini
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cardiff

11:45am - 1:15pm: EVIDENTIALISM AND POLITICAL POLARIZATION
Emily Colleen McWilliams
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duke Kunshan

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2:30pm - 4pm: EMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING AND DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY 
Michael Hannon
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

4:15pm - 5:45pm: THE PERILS OF PERCEPTION: SYSTEMIC DRIVERS OF MISPERCEPTIONS
Bobby Duffy
Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London

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