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    The Procedural Value of Epistemic Virtues
    In Nenad Cekić (ed.), Virtues and vices – between ethics and epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. 2023.
    The longstanding tension between the procedural and instrumental justification of democracy has been challenged by the theories that try to combine both approaches. These theories portray epistemic features of democracy in an instrumental framework and then try to reconcile them with procedural values. In this paper, I argue that it is possible to incorporate an epistemic dimension into a justification of democracy, without resorting to instrumentalism. On the view that I advance, Peircean epist…Read more
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    How Realistic Is the Modeling of Epistemic Democracy?
    Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 34 (2): 279-298. 2022.
    ABSTRACT The “diversity trumps ability” model is often interpreted as a mechanism supporting epistemic democracy. However, as a variety of empirical and mathematical studies have shown, if we attempt to test the realism of the model, it turns out that it points as much toward epistocracy as democracy. This might appear to leave epistocracy with an advantage, since its rationale is not usually thought to rely on the DTA but on the obvious relevance of expertise to making complex decisions. Yet if…Read more
  •  141
    Epistemic paternalism in times of crises
    In Nenad Cekić (ed.), Етика и истина у доба кризе, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy. pp. 193-215. 2021.
    Epistemic paternalism is the practice of interfering in the process of inquiry of another,without prior consultation and for the sake of her epistemic good. We will examine two main types of epistemic paternalism: eudaimonic and strict. In the case of eudaimonic epistemic paternalism, epistemic improvement is used only as a means to achieve non-epistemic benefits. In the case of strict epistemic paternalism, epistemic improvement is valued as a good in itself. The main objection against each typ…Read more
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    Do Political Attitudes Matter for Epistemic Decisions of Scientists?
    with Vlasta Sikimić, Tijana Nikitović, and Vanja Subotić
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology 12 (4): 775-801. 2021.
    The epistemic attitudes of scientists, such as epistemic tolerance and authoritarianism, play important roles in the discourse about rivaling theories. Epistemic tolerance stands for the mental attitude of an epistemic agent, e.g., a scientist, who is open to opposing views, while epistemic authoritarianism represents the tendency to uncritically accept views of authorities. Another relevant epistemic factor when it comes to the epistemic decisions of scientists is the skepticism towards the sci…Read more
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    In his Spheres of Justice, Michael Walzer argues that society can be understood as a compound of a number of different segments, where each of them has its own distinct meanings and values of social goods. He calls these segments ‘spheres of distributive justice’, and, as distinct meanings and values point to different procedures of distribution, spheres are separated by criteria and arrangements which are considered appropriate for distribution of certain goods. We should seek to ensure that in…Read more
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    Condorcet’s jury theorem: General will and epistemic democracy
    Theoria: Beograd 61 (4): 147-170. 2018.
    My aim in this paper is to explain what Condorcet’s jury theorem is, and to examine its central assumptions, its significance to the epistemic theory of democracy and its connection with Rousseau’s theory of general will. In the first part of the paper I will analyze an epistemic theory of democracy and explain how its connection with Condorcet’s jury theorem is twofold: the theorem is at the same time a contributing historical source, and the model used by the authors to this day. In the second…Read more