Ignorance and Irrationality in Politics
Nottingham
United Kingdom
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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
Lunch
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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