Landemore, Hélène and Sakai, Ryota (2024) Revisiting Plato’s Cave: On the Proper Role of Lay People versus Experts in Politics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This paper revisits a debate in epistemic democracy about the value of the Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem (Hong and Page 2004 and Page 2008) in supporting the claims of epistemic democrats in favor of more inclusive decision-making processes in politics. We conduct a systematic review of DTA results and conclude that while they generally support the epistemic claims of deliberative democrats, they also support reintroducing experts in certain contexts. We use these results to complicate Plato’s metaphor of the cave by identifying different areas within it where ordinary citizens, experts, or a mix of both are in a better position to make decisions.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Landemore, Hélène helene.landemore@yale.edu Sakai, Ryota sakai.ryota@gmail.com
Keywords:	Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem, DTA, Systematic Review, Epistemic Democracy
Subjects:	General Issues > Computer Simulation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Ryota Sakai
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2024 13:39
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 13:39
Item ID:	24221
Subjects:	General Issues > Computer Simulation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Date:	15 November 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24221

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