The first edited collection to explore one of the most rapidly growing area of philosophy: political epistemology. The volume brings together leading philosophers to explore ways in which the analytic and conceptual tools of epistemology bear on political philosophy--and vice versa.

Elizabeth Edenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baruch College, The City University of New York. She specializes in political philosophy, political epistemology, and the ethics of emerging technologies. Edenberg is the co-editor of 'Jus Post Bellum' and Transitional Justice (with Larry May; Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Michael Hannon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and founder of the Political Epistemology Network. He is author of What's the Point of Knowledge? A Function-First Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2019).

• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• PART 1: Truth and Knowledge in Politics


• 1: Elizabeth Anderson: Epistemic Bubbles and Authoritarian Politics


• 2: Regina Rini: Weaponized Skepticism: An Analysis of Social Media Deception as Applied Political Epistemology


• 3: Quassim Cassam: Bullshit, Post-truth, and Propaganda


• 4: Fabienne Peter: Truth and Uncertainty in Political Justification


• 5: Briana Toole: What Lies Beneath: The Epistemic Roots of White Supremacy


• PART 2: Epistemic Problems for Democracy


• 6: David Estlund: Epistocratic Paternalism


• 7: Thomas Christiano: The Basis of Political Equality


• 8: Jason Brennan: Does Public Reason Liberalism Rest on a Mistake? Democracy's Doxastic and Epistemic Problems


• 9: Alexander Guerrero: The Epistemic Pathologies of Elections and the Epistemic Virtues of Lottocracy


• 10: Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij and Jennifer R. Steele: Policy, Ignorance, and the Will of the People: The Case of 'Good Immigrants'


• PART 3: Disagreement and Polarization


• 11: Robert B. Talisse: Problems of Polarization


• 12: Jeroen de Ridder: Deep Disagreements and Political Polarization


• 13: Michael Lynch: Political Disagreement, Arrogance, and the Pursuit of Truth


• 14: Elizabeth Edenberg: The Problem with Disagreement on Social Media: Moral not Epistemic


• 15: Jennifer Lackey: When Should We Disagree About Politics?


• 16: Michael Hannon: Disagreement or Badmouthing? The Role of Expressive Discourse in Politics