Michael I. Räber is a post-doctoral visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research has been mainly focused on theories of democracy (politics and aesthetics, deliberative theory and political epistemology), political pragmatism, philosophy of art, and the history of political thought.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: How to Justify Democracy’s Trust in the Political Judgments of Ordinary People.- Part I: A Pragmatist Theory of Democratic Political Judgment.-  Chapter 2. Democracy, Epistemology and Deweyan Pragmatism.- Chapter 3. A Pragmatist Theory of Judgment.- Chapter 4. Political Judgments and Political Inquiry: Arendt and Dewey.- Chapter 5. Judgments, Juries and the Political Sphere.- Chapter 6. Dewey’s Epistemic Argument for Democracy Reconsidered.- Part II: Pragmatist Political Judgment and The Circumstances of Democratic Politics.- Chapter 7. The Epistemic Value of Diversity in Democratic Publics.- Chapter 8. Diversity, Democratic Systems and Epistemic Quality.- Chapter 9. Which Types of Knower Should Democracies Include and Why?.

Michael I. Räber is a post-doctoral visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research has been mainly focused on theories of democracy (politics and aesthetics, deliberative theory and political epistemology), political pragmatism, philosophy of art, and the history of political thought.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: How to Justify Democracy’s Trust in the Political Judgments of Ordinary People.- Part I: A Pragmatist Theory of Democratic Political Judgment.-  Chapter 2. Democracy, Epistemology and Deweyan Pragmatism.- Chapter 3. A Pragmatist Theory of Judgment.- Chapter 4. Political Judgments and Political Inquiry: Arendt and Dewey.- Chapter 5. Judgments, Juries and the Political Sphere.- Chapter 6. Dewey’s Epistemic Argument for Democracy Reconsidered.- Part II: Pragmatist Political Judgment and The Circumstances of Democratic Politics.- Chapter 7. The Epistemic Value of Diversity in Democratic Publics.- Chapter 8. Diversity, Democratic Systems and Epistemic Quality.- Chapter 9. Which Types of Knower Should Democracies Include and Why?.

Michael I. Räber is a post-doctoral visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research has been mainly focused on theories of democracy (politics and aesthetics, deliberative theory and political epistemology), political pragmatism, philosophy of art, and the history of political thought.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: How to Justify Democracy’s Trust in the Political Judgments of Ordinary People.- Part I: A Pragmatist Theory of Democratic Political Judgment.-  Chapter 2. Democracy, Epistemology and Deweyan Pragmatism.- Chapter 3. A Pragmatist Theory of Judgment.- Chapter 4. Political Judgments and Political Inquiry: Arendt and Dewey.- Chapter 5. Judgments, Juries and the Political Sphere.- Chapter 6. Dewey’s Epistemic Argument for Democracy Reconsidered.- Part II: Pragmatist Political Judgment and The Circumstances of Democratic Politics.- Chapter 7. The Epistemic Value of Diversity in Democratic Publics.- Chapter 8. Diversity, Democratic Systems and Epistemic Quality.- Chapter 9. Which Types of Knower Should Democracies Include and Why?.