ABSTRACT
If widespread disagreement tempts us toward skepticism, perhaps widespread agreement should tempt us toward certainty. This chapter first considers “aggregative” epistemic democracy, as found most characteristically in Condorcet’s jury theorem and then some aspects of deliberative democracy. We note that powerful theorems and intuitions about widespread agreement are faced by powerful evidence about political ignorance on the other side and close by considering a “dilemma of democracy” in which it may be rational to be an epistemic free-rider.
