This book provides an indispensable and pioneering expansion of political epistemology beyond its traditional Anglo-American focus. With sixteen chapters from leading and up-and-coming European political epistemologists, the volume focuses on multi-partisan political environments, the legacy of different historical systems, and case studies from frequently underrepresented European countries.
The book s chapters explore how epistemic agents form and revise beliefs about European political actors, institutions, and political phenomena. The European Face of Political Epistemology provides an epistemological analysis of political parochialism, political multi-partisanship, the European Union, European governments, polarisation, corruption, and political coalitions.
A necessary first step in encouraging further research on this topic by philosophers from a wider range of countries, this book is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of political epistemology.
Chapter 1. Why We Require a European Political Epistemology.- Chapter 2. Parochialism in Political Epistemology.- Chapter 3. Politics With an Attitude.- Chapter 4. "A False One, a Real Two: Epistemic Problems in Understanding Political Representation".-Chapter 5. Political Polarization and Three Types of Epistemic Distortion.- Chapter 6. Do We Need a European Political Epistemology ?.- Chapter 7. Slurs and Polarization.- Chapter 8. Teaching Ideology and Ideological Teaching.- Chapter 9. "Constructing Meritocracy and Cronyism in the Romanian Academia: Women s Voices".- Chapter 10. "Interference By Whom? Advocating for Experienced-Based Forms of Expertise in
Debates on Epistemic Paternalism".- Chapter 11. " People, the choice of people. Something like that. What does democracy mean for Croatian Youth?".- Chapter 12. "Empathic Engagement and Polarization in Multi-Party Democracies: The Case of the Populist Radical Right".- Chapter 13. Expert Advice and Institutional Trust.- Chapter 14. Weak Social Ties as a Ward Against Political Polarization.- Chapter 15. "Argumentative Injustice in Political Argumentation and Deliberative Democracy: Political Credibility Deficit and Political Identity-Prejudice".
Hana Samarzija is a Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Rijeka. She has previously published original research in leading epistemological journals and edited The Epistemology of Democracy (2023) with Quassim Cassam.
Robin McKenna is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool and a Senior Research Associate at the African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Non-Ideal Epistemology (2023). He previously co-edited (with Natalie Ashton, Martin Kusch and Katharina Sodoma) Social Epistemology and Relativism (2020) and (with Christos Kyriacou) Metaepistemology (2018).
