Robert Talisse
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first heard Jul 2011
last heard Jan 2025
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Um and the person who won the uh most recent presidential election was running on a major campaign slogan that's um about going about precisely about going back, about not progressing, about making America
Great again.
Um
Your book is cautiously hopeful, I would say, about um democracy and the prospects for social and moral progress.
Um, so can you f sort of fill in a little bit of the background about s sort of this line of thinking and uh what is attractive to you about the idea that democracy's merits are to be spelled out in terms of its capacity to catalyze progress?
Right.
That's you know, so as you're y you know, I I had a thought as you were
Um just laying that out.
Um you know, even
The the sort of early deliberative Democrats, which uh I'm gonna uh ask you uh uh uh a question about your relation to them in a minute, but
Um
You know, w when they and they weren't fully epistemic, right?
I mean the deliberation seems to invoke certain kinds of epistemic ideas, but the early deliberative Democrats thought that
You know, the big difference, the big innovation of their view was that um unlike the competing views, the sort of more aggregative and procedure based views, they thought the deliberativists thought that um uh you know, democracy is about people's preferences changing in the light of
Interaction, communication, d you know, reasoning together, uh uh, getting new information.
Um
But I guess that you know, part of what you're but you know, I I I uh correct me if I'm wrong.
I think this is in line with with with the view that you lay out on the book.
Is that even the even though the deliberativists start off by seeing that democracy and democratic properly democratic social processes are processes by which people change, um
They didn't f they still held on to a pretty narrow conception of the the the the breadth of that change, where you just change your preference from, you know, one candidate to the next or one policy option from the other.
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