“I ain’t no physykist, but I knows what matters.” — Popeye The Problem of Public Discourse While there is an abundance of disagreements in contemporary epistemology—obviously, philosophy is the business of disagreement—the discussion on the problem of the public discourse seems to me among the most urgent and consequential because it stands some chance to spill over into policy. And while my reply to Shane Ryan and Matthew Hammerton’s…

Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality: Knowledge and Governance in a Non-ideal World provides an account of the fundamental design of an institution…

Reconciling theories of intelligent institutional systems in experimentalist open democracy and pluralist liberalism, Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality argues that protecting freed...

In this paper, I develop an epistemological argument for freedom from poverty, building on Gerald Gaus’ work on political and moral disagreement in New Diversity Theory (NDT). NDT argues that diversit...