Democratic Decisions in a Critical Thinking Crisis

In this book, Aidan Kestigian argues that political communities are in a critical thinking crisis, which inhibits high-quality reasoning in public deliberation. Substantive educational and political reform is needed to bring public decision-making closer to the ideals imagined in democratic theory.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Part 1: What Is Deliberation, and Why Is It Valuable?
Chapter 1: Disagreements, Out in the Open
Chapter 2: What Is a "Democratic" Decision?
Chapter 3: How Might Deliberation Promote the Common Good?
Part 2: Does Deliberation Promote the Common Good?
Chapter 4: Does Deliberation Change Our Policy Preferences?
Chapter 5: Does Deliberation Change Our Motivations?
Part 3: Charting a Middle Path
Chapter 6: The Centrality of Reason in Deliberation
Chapter 7: Are Reasoning Skills Present?
Chapter 8: Better, More Productive Disagreements
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Aidan Kestigian

Product details

• Authors: Aidan Kestigian, Aidan Kestigian
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666928433
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-843-3
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education