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43Epistemic democracy and meritocratic leadershipCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. forthcoming.Elena Ziliotti argues that incorporating Confucian-inspired meritocratic procedures within political parties can improve the quality of political leadership and, through this, the epistemic performance of democracy. This paper considers the contribution of political leaders to epistemic democracy and argues against epistemic democrats embracing forms of meritocratic selection.
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Evidence for Symbolic Language Processing in a BonoboJournal of Consciousness Studies 9 (12): 33-56. 2002.Evidence that an animal is capable of some degree of symbolic, human language processing supports the argument that the animal's consciousness is to some degree human-like. In this paper, we reinterpret the findings of Savage- Rumbaugh et al. using the twin tools of Deacon's referential hierarchy and Systemic Functional Linguistics, with a view to providing further corroborative evidence for a Bonobo ape's symbolic processing abilities, and as a result to open a window into the consciousness of …Read more
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