Abstract
AbstractResearch on the normative ideal of democracy has taken a sharp deliberative and epistemic turn. It is now increasingly common for claims about the putativecognitivebenefits of political deliberation to play central roles in normative arguments for democracy. In this paper, I argue that the most prominent epistemic defences of deliberative democracy fail. Relying on empirical findings on the workings of implicit bias, I show that they overstate the epistemic virtues of political deliberation. I also argue that findings in cognitive and social psychology can aid in the development of a new and improved generation of epistemic arguments for deliberative democracy.
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