Bryan, Alexander
2023.
The epistemic dimensions of civil disobedience.
Journal of Political Philosophy
10.1111/jopp.12310
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12310
Abstract
The civil disobedience launched by agents arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic is either a hoax or some deliberate ploy raises an important question: is the justification of civil disobedience conditional on dissenters satisfying some epistemic conditions? In this paper I illuminate the neglected epistemic constraints in liberal accounts which commit to a formal agnosticism on the content of civil disobedience, show how these accounts develop implausible outputs by incorporating these constraints in the concept of conviction, and argue for an epistemic obligation on dissenters which feeds into a determination of the justification of civil disobedience.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | In Press |
Schools: | English, Communication and Philosophy |
Publisher: | Wiley |
ISSN: | 0963-8016 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 14 August 2023 |
Date of Acceptance: | 30 June 2023 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2024 03:13 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161572 |
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