Deliberation, dismissal, and democracy / David Schraub.
| Author/creator | Schraub, David author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xi, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Taking up hard thoughts -- Hard thoughts and political openness -- What does it mean to "take up" a claim? -- Taking up discrimination claims -- Motive and structure in taking up the hard thoughts -- Ignorance, dismissal, and motivated cognition -- Ignorance -- Dismissal -- (The limits of) evaluative motivated reasoning -- The mechanisms and the harms of dismissal -- Desiring disagreement -- Replacement epistemology -- The harms of dismissal -- Playing with cards: discrimination claims and the charge of bad faith -- The card in play -- Bad faith and the aversive racist: commonality versus condemnation -- The bad faith charge as a testimonial injustice -- Objections -- Listening, to Mill -- Mill's duty to listen -- Free speech beyond the juridical: the campus case -- The deliberative and regulative dimensions of free speech -- Listening and power -- Not listening, to Nietzsche -- What's the problem with listening? -- "Not listening" as collective liberation -- Cultivating (and preserving) the virtues of deliberation -- The virtues of speaking freely and of staying silent -- The virtue of cultivating epistemic friction -- The virtue of having, and transcending, safe spaces? -- Bypassing dismissal: law as a cognitive expressway -- Moral negligence and the social distribution of knowledge -- Law's (literal) rules for dismissal -- From the court of law to the court of public opinion -- Deliberation under protest -- Protests as law's unruly cousin -- Regulating protests ethically -- What do we expect of academic speech enforcers? |
| Abstract | Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy examines the common instinct to ""dismiss"" claims that make us uncomfortable, rather than engaging in a deliberation of their merits. Focusing on dismissal as a primarily social, rather than legal, phenomenon, David Schraub identifies the problems that stem from the tendency to dismiss and proposes ways we can confront the hard thoughts that must be properly considered in a healthy democracy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780197816394 |
| ISBN | 9780197816387 hardcover |
| ISBN | 019781638X hardcover |
| ISBN | 0197816398 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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