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22For Those Who Will Follow; Earth Marred and Renewing RelationshipsConstellations 30 (2): 108-118. 2023.Constellations, EarlyView.
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34Rationalism and the silencing and distorting of Indigenous voicesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (7): 1024-1047. 2021.The politics of reconciliation, in Canada, finds its origin in judgements of the Supreme Court affirming the objective of reconciling the sui generis authority and continued distinct existence of I...
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23Rationalism and the silencing and distorting of Indigenous voicesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (7): 1024-1047. 2021.The politics of reconciliation, in Canada, finds its origin in judgements of the Supreme Court affirming the objective of reconciling the sui generis authority and continued distinct existence of I...
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18La philosophie politique en deçà et au-delà de l’État : IntroductionLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 10 (2): 60-64. 2015.Benoît Morissette,Yann Allard-Tremblay
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51Trust and Distrust in the Achievement of Popular ControlThe Monist 98 (4): 375-390. 2015.This paper aims to deflate the idea that democracy would be in essence a privileged locus of civic trust. Three claims are defended: (1) there is nothing specific to democracy regarding the affirmation that trust is required for social cooperation; (2) democracy, when conceived discursively, depends on guarded epistemic trust and; (3) popular control may require, in some contexts, institutions that express and foster distrust towards a specific section of the population. The conclusion to be dra…Read more
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473Political Corruption as Deformities of TruthLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 9 (1): 28-49. 2014.This paper presents a conception of corruption informed by epistemic democratic theory. I first explain the view of corruption as a disease of the political body. Following this view, we have to consider the type of actions that debase a political entity of its constitutive principal in order to assess corruption. Accordingly, we need to consider what the constitutive principle of democracy is. This is the task I undertake in the second section where I explicate democratic legitimacy. I present …Read more
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51Epistemic theories of democracy, constitutionalism and the procedural legitimacy of fundamental rightsDissertation, University of St Andrews. 2012.The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the legitimacy of constitutional laws and bills of rights within the framework of procedural epistemic democracy. The thesis is divided into three sections. In the first section, I discuss the relevance of an epistemic argument for democracy under the circumstances of politics: I provide an account of reasonable disagreement and explain how usual approaches to the authority of decision-making procedures fail to take it seriously. In the second part of …Read more
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43Proceduralism, Judicial Review and the Refusal of Royal AssentOxford Journal of Legal Studies 33 (2): 379-400. 2013.This article provides an exploration of the relationships between a procedural account of epistemic democracy, illegitimate laws and judicial review. I first explain how there can be illegitimate laws within a procedural account of democracy. I argue that even if democratic legitimacy is conceived procedurally, it does not imply that democracy could legitimately undermine itself or adopt grossly unjust laws. I then turn to the legitimacy of judicial review with regard to these illegitimate laws.…Read more
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78Divide and Rule Better: On Subsidiarity, Legitimacy and the Epistemic Aim of Political Decision-MakingJournal of Applied Philosophy. 2017.How should a political society be structured so as to legitimately distribute political power? One principle advanced to answer this question is the principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, the default locus of political power is with the lowest competent political unit. This article argues that subsidiarity is a structural principle of a conception of political legitimacy informed by epistemic considerations. Broadly, the argument is that political societies organised according t…Read more
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44La fonction constructive de la délibération : de l’accord à l’ajustementPhilosophiques 40 (2): 321-349. 2013.Yann Allard-Tremblay ,Aude Bandini | : Les théories épistémiques et délibératives de la démocratie soulignent l’importance du processus de la délibération quand l’objectif poursuivi est de parvenir à de bonnes décisions. Dans cet article, nous nous intéresserons aux différents mécanismes grâce auxquels une délibération publique à la fois ouverte, libre et inclusive, peut parvenir à de bonnes décisions, avant d’envisager ce que la délibération peut apporter en cas de désaccord. Nous nous concentr…Read more
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81The Epistemic Edge of Majority Voting Over Lottery VotingRes Publica 18 (3): 207-223. 2012.I aim to explain why majority voting can be assumed to have an epistemic edge over lottery voting. This would provide support for majority voting as the appropriate decision mechanism for deliberative epistemic accounts of democracy. To argue my point, I first recall the usual arguments for majority voting: maximal decisiveness, fairness as anonymity, and minimal decisiveness. I then show how these arguments are over inclusive as they also support lottery voting. I then present a framework to me…Read more
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55Human rights, specification and communities of inquiryGlobal Constitutionalism 4 (2). 2015.This paper offers a revised political conception of human rights informed by legal pluralism and epistemic considerations. In the first part, I present the political conception of human rights. I then argue for four desiderata that such a conception should meet to be functionally applicable. In the rest of the first section and in the second section, I explain how abstract human rights norms and the practice of specification prevent the political conception from meeting these four desiderata. In…Read more
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30On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of DemocracyPhilosophical Quarterly 65 (260): 559-561. 2012.
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Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |