Democracy, Populism, and Truth

Mark Christopher Navin is Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University and Lecturer in Foundational Medical Studies at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. His scholarly work focuses on bioethics and public health ethics. Richard Nunan is Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, and of Film Studies, at the College of Charleston. His primary research is in Philosophy of Law & Political Philosophy, Gender Studies, and Philosophy in Film.

• - Introduction: Conceptualizing Populism, Democracy, and Truth.- Part I Conceptions of Populism.- Two Concepts of Populism.- Corruption, Populism, and Sloth.- Democracy and Populism.- Part II Truth and Democratic Discourse.- Democracy, Truth, and Understanding: An Epistemic Argument for Democracy.- Free Speech, Universities, and the Development of Civic Discourse.- Harm, “No-Platforming” and the Mission of the University: A Reply to McGregor.- Journalistic Balance, Unintended Pyrrhonism, and Political Polarization.- Part III Social Media, Truth, and Justice.- Reflections on the Root Causes of Outrage Discourse on Social Media.- Identifying Political Participants on Social Media: Conflicts of Epistemic Justice.- Part IV Voting and Democracy.- As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation? Ranked Choice Voting and STV as Antidotes to Tribal Populism.- Voting without Voice: How Votes Can Be Counted Without Counting  [or Democracy and the Wasted Vote Problem.- Part V American Democracy and Populism.- #ConstitutionalStability.- Populism, American Nationalism and Representative Democracy.- An Antidote to Populism.- The Lethal Synergy Corroding American Democracy: Who Are the “GINs” – And Why Is It that They Can’t “Quit Trump”?.- Part VI Populism and International Justice.- African Challenges to the International Criminal Court: An Example of Populism?.- Something’s Afoot: Conservative Populist Oppositionalism.