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18When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting BehaviourPhilosophy and Social Criticism 49 (9): 1046-1060. 2023.Ignorance about political related issues has long been considered a threat to democracy. This paper revolves around the concept of political ignorance, focusing especially on Ilya Somin’s book Democracy and Political Ignorance and going beyond his standpoint in two ways. First of all, it moves away from the notion of factual knowledge by showing that political ignorance cannot be limited to a matter of information quality. On the contrary, it shows that ignorance concerns the formation of opinio…Read more
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13Making out sense of the social worldMetodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 8 (1): 105-134. 2020.Institutions represent a solid basis to organize and stabilize human life in diferent social contexts. They are external events in the world, but they also have a strong anchorage in the mind and in last years many scholars tried to explore their cognitive ground. Starting from the original attempt of Douglass C. North, who at the end of his career tried to establish a program called “Cognitive Institutionalism”, we discuss the merits and the limits of this approach. First, we show that his stat…Read more
University of Pisa
PhD, 2019
Lucca, Toscana, Italy
Areas of Specialization
Political Theory |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Economics |
Philosophy of Social Science |