Jamie Carlin Watson

Winning Votes by Abusing Reason

Responsible Belief and Political Rhetoric

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the past few decades, psychologists have discovered that human reasoning is defective in surprising ways. We are beset by numerous biases and heuristics, which lead us to reason poorly about things that matter to us. And while there are illuminating evolutionary explanations for how these biases and heuristics may have benefited our species in its phylogeny, psychologists are unanimous that these cognitive dispositions largely corrupt rather than aid our belief-forming practices. In Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Political Rhetoric and Responsible Belief, Jamie Watson argues that political rhetoric, rather than helping us overcome these defects, exacerbates them. And standard attempts to address this problem, such as deliberative democracy and paternalism, tend to either exclude citizens from important decisions or give them the illusion of reasoning well, perpetuating poor and irresponsible political beliefs. This book concludes that, rather than attempt more political solutions, the most promising approach to forming and preserving responsible political beliefs is to adopt individual principles of epistemic caution. The author brings together insights from political philosophy, social epistemology, behavioral psychology, and agnotology to suggest how we might protect our belief-forming behavior from the corrosive effects of political rhetoric. Recommended for scholars of philosophy, rhetoric, political science, and communications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781498516426
• ISBN-10: 1498516424
• Artikelnr.: 45796382

Autorenporträt

By Jamie Carlin Watson

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction Part 1: Rhetorical Strategy and Responsible Belief
Chapter 1. Social Epistemology and Political Rhetoric Chapter 2. Learning
from Politicians Part 2: The Problem of Political Rhetoric Chapter 3. User
Error: Common Fallacies in Political Rhetoric Chapter 4. Hardware Glitches:
Cognitive Biases and Heuristics in Politics Chapter 5. System Failure:
Social Biases Chapter 6. Political and Moral Expertise Part 3: Forming
Responsible Political Beliefs Chapter 7. Knowing and Voting: Democratic
Solutions Chapter 8. Nudges and Shoves: Paternalistic Solutions Chapter 9.
Epistemic Virtue and Individual Responsibility Bibliography About the
Author