ABSTRACT
One interpretation of epistemic democracy has been particularly infl uential; I shall call this the “standard account of epistemic democracy.” Christian
List and Robert Goodin (2001: 277) give the following brief but representative characterization:
For epistemic democrats, the aim of democracy is to ‘track the truth.’ For them, democracy is more desirable than alternative forms of decision-making because, and insofar as, it does that. One democratic decision rule is more desirable than another according to that same standard, so far as epistemic democrats are concerned.
