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  1. Public deliberation and the fact of expertise: making experts accountable.Cathrine Holst & Anders Molander - 2017 - Social Epistemology 31 (3):235-250.
    This paper discusses the conditions for legitimate expert arrangements within a democratic order and from a deliberative systems approach. It is argued that standard objections against the political role of experts are flawed or ill-conceived. The problem that confronts us instead is primarily one of truth-sensitive institutional design: Which mechanisms can contribute to ensuring that experts are really experts and that they use their competencies in the right way? The paper outlines a set of such mechanisms. However, the challenge exceeds (...)
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    Science Advice in an Environment of Trust: Trusted, but Not Trustworthy?Torbjørn Gundersen & Cathrine Holst - 2022 - Social Epistemology 36 (5):629-640.
    This paper examines the conditions of trustworthy science advice mechanisms, in which scientists have a mandated role to inform public policymaking. Based on the literature on epistemic trust and public trust in science, we argue that possession of relevant expertise, justified moral and political considerations, as well as proper institutional design are conditions for trustworthy science advice. In order to assess these conditions further, we explore the case of temporary advisory committees in Norway. These committees exemplify a de facto trusted (...)
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  3. Epistemic democracy and the role of experts.Cathrine Holst & Anders Molander - 2019 - Contemporary Political Theory 18 (4):541-561.
    Epistemic democrats are rightly concerned with the quality of outcomes and judge democratic procedures in terms of their ability to ‘track the truth’. However, their impetus to assess ‘rule by experts’ and ‘rule by the people’ as mutually exclusive has led to a meagre treatment of the role of expert knowledge in democracy. Expertise is often presented as a threat to democracy but is also crucial for enlightened political processes. Contemporary political philosophy has so far paid little attention to our (...)
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    Descriptive representation of women in international courts.Cathrine Holst & Silje A. Langvatn - 2021 - Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (4):473-490.
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    Jürgen Habermas on public reason and religion: do religious citizens suffer an asymmetrical cognitive burden, and should they be compensated?Cathrine Holst & Anders Molander - 2015 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (5):547-563.
    In his recent writings, Jürgen Habermas asks how the liberal constitutional principle of separation between church and state, religion and politics, should be understood. The problem, he holds, is that a liberal state guarantees equal freedom for religious communities to practise their faith, while at the same time shielding the political bodies that take collectively binding decisions from religious influences. This means that religious citizens are asked to justify their political statements independently of their religious views, resulting in a burden (...)
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  6. A New Dark Age? Truth, Trust, and Environmental Science.Torbjørn Gundersen, Maria Baghramian & Cathrine Holst - 2022 - Annual Review of Environment and Resources 47 (5):5-21.
    This review examines the alleged crisis of trust in environmental science and its impact on public opinion, policy decisions in the context of democratic governance, and the interaction between science and society. In an inter- disciplinary manner, the review focuses on the following themes: the trust- worthiness of environmental science, empirical studies on levels of trust and trust formation; social media, environmental science, and disinformation; trust in environmental governance and democracy; and co-production of knowledge and the production of trust in (...)
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    Democratizing Expertise: The Epistemic Approach.Cathrine Holst - forthcoming - Social Epistemology.
    The article asks how contemporary expert arrangements should be (re-)designed in the face of calls for their democratization. To address this question, four philosophically grounded, ideal-type institutional proposals regarding the democracy–expertise relationship are introduced, compared, and assessed. The proposals are science in democracy – an approach primarily concerned with safeguarding independent scientific institutions positioned within a larger democratic system; direct democratization – an approach that focuses on expert arrangements more broadly and the need for direct measures of democratization; partisan expertise (...)
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    Philosophy, Policy, and Moral Expertise.Jakob Elster & Cathrine Holst - 2024 - Res Publica 30 (1):1-9.
    Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral and political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic and democratic worries raised by the presence of philosopher experts in contemporary governance, relying on a broad review of existing studies, and suggests measures to alleviate them. It is argued that biases philosophers are vulnerable to (...)
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    Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries about Expertise.Cathrine Holst & Anders Molander - 2018 - Social Epistemology 32 (6):358-371.
    This paper contributes to an on-going exchange in political theory on the normative legitimacy of expert bodies. It focuses on epistemic worries about the expertisation of politics, and uses the Nordic system of advisory commissions as an empirical case. Epistemic concerns are often underplayed by those who defend an increasing role of experts in policy-making, while those who have epistemic worries often tend to overstate them and debunk expertise. We present ten epistemic worries, of which some are of an epistemological (...)
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    Worries About Philosopher Experts.Cathrine Holst - 2024 - Res Publica 30 (1):47-66.
    Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral and political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic and democratic worries raised by the presence of philosopher experts in contemporary governance, relying on a broad review of existing studies, and suggests measures to alleviate them. It is argued that biases philosophers are vulnerable to (...)
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    Expert accountability: What does it mean, why is it challenging—and is it what we need?Silje Aa Langvatn & Cathrine Holst - 2022 - Constellations 31 (1):98-113.
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    Krig og rettferdighet.Cathrine Holst - 2004 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 22 (3):192-198.
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    Kritikk uten politikk.Cathrine Holst - 2019 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 37 (2):335-345.
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    Nancy Fraser: Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Mananged Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis.Cathrine Holst - 2014 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 31 (3-4):384-391.
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    Nancy Fraser i en norsk offentlig utredning.Cathrine Holst - 2016 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 33 (2-3):40-61.
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    Om liberalismen.Cathrine Holst - 2004 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 22 (4):217-224.
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    Rettferdig harme?Cathrine Holst - 2018 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 35 (2-3):381-385.
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    What Is Philosophy of Social Science?Cathrine Holst - 2009 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23 (3):313-321.
    Patrick Baert Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005viii + 210 pp., ISBN 9780745622460, £50.00, €62.50 (hardback); ISBN 9780745622477, £17.99, €22.50 (paperback) Hans Dooremalen, Herman de Regt & Maurice Sc...
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    Kunnskap i markedssamfunnetLisa HerzogCitizen Knowledge. Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy.Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023. [REVIEW]Cathrine Holst - 2024 - Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 41 (2-3):370-381.
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    Feminisme, historie og opplysningIngeborg W. Owesen,The Genealogy of Modern Feminist Thinking. Feminist Thought as Historical Present.London og New York: Routledge 2021. [REVIEW]Cathrine Holst - 2022 - Agora 40 (2-3):336-341.
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