Reading List, Autumn 2024

Elise Woodard, KCL Law

Readings available on Leganto (for King’s students)

Part I: Political Epistemology

Week 1: Truth & Politics [Sept 25]

• Arendt, Hannah. 1967. “Truth and Politics” (in Between Past & Future)
• Hannon & Woodard. *Political Epistemology: An Introduction: "*Introduction" and Chapter 1, "Truth and Politics"

Week 2: Epistemic Democracy [Oct 2]

• Anderson, Elizabeth. 2006. “The Epistemology of Democracy. “
• Estlund, David & Hélène Landemore. 2018. “The Epistemic Value of Democratic Deliberation.”
• Hannon & Woodard. Political Epistemology: An Introduction, Chapter 2: “Epistemic Democracy”

Week 3: Empathy & Democracy [Oct 16*]

Note: Skipping Oct 9 due to travel; Additional session December 11

• Hannon, Michael. 2020. “Empathetic Understanding & Deliberative Democracy.”
• Cassam, Quassim. 2023. “Sense-Making, Empathy, and Democracy”
• Hannon & Woodard, Political Epistemology: An Introduction, Chapter 3: “Epistemic Democracy Revisited," pp. 83--5; rest is optional

Week 4: Voter Ignorance [Oct 23]

• Somin, Ilya. 2021. “Is Political Ignorance Rational?”