Doubts About 'Democratic Legitimacy'

Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy

Joshua Cohen In this essay I explore the ideal of a 'deliberative democracy'.1 By a deliberative democracy I shall mean, roughly, an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members. I propose an account of the value of such an association that treats democracy itself as a fundamental political ideal and not simply as a derivative ideal that can be explained in t...

Doubts about dementia diagnoses.

Doubts about quantal analysis.

TO THE EDITOR: In an impressive series of articles, Korn and co-workers (e.g., Faber and Korn 1988; Faber et al. 1992, 1995; Korn et al. 1981, 1982, 1987; reviews in Korn and Faber 1991, 2005) described electrophysiological recordings performed on goldfish Mauthner cells and adjacent inhibitory interneurons. In their founding article, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Korn and collea...

Appreciating doubts about HIV medicine

Received 25 September 2015; Accepted 6 November 2015; Published 8 December 2015 Copyright: – 2015 Newman CE; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium...

Doubts about ‘uncertainty without All the Doubt’

Call the following the storage hypothesis : degreed beliefs are stable attitudes of agents that can be appealed to for predicting and explaining patterns of behavior, judgment, and decision making. [1] the storage hypothesis is that humans have, or it is as if we have, degrees of belief, and our judgment and decision making across a wide range of situations is systematically predicted by them (...