Democracy as Political Inquiry: Pragmatist Contributions to Democratic Justification

Project outcomes

Funded doctoral researcher: Dominik Gerber

PUBLICATIONS

For more details on some of my publications please see the Articles and Book Chapters section of this site

Gerber, D. (2021). Democracy and Epistemic Egalitarianism‬. Raisons Politiques, 81(1), 49-63.

Lever, A. (2021). ‪Democracy and Truth‬. Raisons Politiques, 81(1), 29-38.

Lever, A., & Gerber, D. (2021). ‪Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy: Introduction‬. Raisons Politiques, 81(1), 5–10.

Lever, A., & Gerber, D. (Eds.) (2021). ‪Raisons Politiques - Special Issue on Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy, 81(1).

Lever, A. (2019). ‪Towards a Political Philosophy of Human Rights‬. In D. Satz & A. Lever (Eds.), Ideas That Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights (pp. 231–250). Oxford University Press.

Lever, A., & Chin, C. (2019). Democratic epistemology and democratic morality: The appeal and challenges of Peircean pragmatism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 22(4), 432–453.

Lever, A., & Volacu, A. (2018). Should voting be compulsory? Democracy and the ethics of voting. In The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (pp. 242–254). Routledge.

Ossipow, W., & Gerber, D. (2017). The Reception of Vattel’s Law of Nations in the American Colonies: From James Otis and John Adams to the Declaration of Independence. American Journal of Legal History, 57(4), 521–555.

Lever, A. (2017). Democracy, Epistemology and the Problem of All‐White Juries. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34(4), 82-85.

Lever, A. (2016). Must We Vote for the Common Good? In E. Crookston, D. Killoren, & J. Trerise (Eds.), Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents (pp. 155–166). Routledge.

Talisse, R. (2015). Response to Lever‬. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 18(1), 74–81.

Lever, A. (2015). ‪Democracy and Epistemology: A Reply to Talisse‬. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 18(1), 74–81.

PRESENTATIONS

Lever, A. (2018, December 8). Compulsory Voting and Voluntary Voting. Rethinking Compulsory Voting, University of Geneva.

Lever, A. (2018, August 6). Democracy and the Ethics of Voting. 3rd Workshop on Political Equality and Voting, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Lever, A. (2018, June 23). Democratic legitimacy, elections and the ethics of voting. Annual Conference of the Association for Social and Political Philosophy, Panel on Democratic Legitimacy and the Ethics of Voting, LUISS Guido Carli & University of Rome.

Lever, A., & Gerber, D. (2018, June 22). The ‘epistemic turn’ in democratic theory: The scene of a struggle between two rival conceptions of the political. Annual Conference of the Association for Social and Political Philosophy, Panel on Epistemic Democracy, LUISS Guido Carli & University of Rome.

Gerber, D. Can Political Epistemology Offer a ‘Problem-Driven’ Theory of Democracy?.

  • (2018, August 22). European Consortium for Political Research - General Conference, Hamburg.
  • (2018, April 10). European Consortium for Political Research - Joint Sessions, Nicosia, Cyprus.
  • (2018, February 2). Swiss Political Science Association Annual Meeting, University of Geneva.
  • (2017, December 21). Geneva Colloquium in Political Theory, University of Geneva.

Gerber, D. (2017, September 9). Moral and Epistemic Implications of a Problem-Driven Approach to Democratic Representation. European Consortium for Political Research - General Conference, Oslo.

Gerber, D. (2017, July 7). The Pragmatist Epistemic Defense of Democracy and its Conceptual Implications. Munich Workshop in the Philosophy of Institutions: Information, Epistemic Norms, and Democratic Choice, Raitenhaslach, Switzerland.

Lever, A. . Democratic Epistemology and Democratic Morality.

  • (2017, July 18). Workshop on Epistemic Democracy, University of Rennes.
  • (2017, May 26). Workshop on Democracy in Practice, University of Genoa

Gerber, D. (2016, November 25). A Deweyan Account of Multiculturalism. International Workshop on Pragmatist Political Theory, University St. Gallen, Switzerland.