Political self-deception and epistemic vice

Ethics & Global Politics

Neil C. Manson¹ 

[1] Lancaster University;

关键词: political self-deception;    epistemic vice;    wishful thinking;    political decision making;   

DOI  :  10.1080/16544951.2020.1853921

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Galeotti argues that we can gain a better understanding of political decision making by drawing upon the notion of self-deception and offers a rich articulation of what self-deception is, and how and why it exerts influence upon political decision making, especially in high-stakes contexts where the decision seems to be counter to rationality. But such contexts are also explicable from a different perspective, with different theoretical resources. In recent years the field of ‘virtue epistemology’ has discussed a wide range of epistemic vices – traits of character, and cognitive strategies, that stand in the way of gaining knowledge. This raises questions about how an explanation of political decision making in terms of self-deception relates to an explanation in terms of epistemic vice. Because the notion of epistemic vice applies to self-deception and to other cognitive deficiencies, it is argued that the broader notion of epistemic vice might be explanatorily richer, and more useful.

【 授权许可】

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