Andreas Christiansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Christiansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Christiansen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIANSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7187-4520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Epistemic Significance of Convergence in Ethical Theory
The major ethical theories—welfarist consequentialism, Kantianism, contractualism, common sense morality, and virtue ethics—appear to converge on the same practical advice in many situations. Such convergence seems epistemically significant. A natural thought would be that the convergence should assure us about the advice. However, what would be the rationale behind this—why should the convergence increase our assurance? That’s the main question …
Informed Preference Voting Is Not Democratic
Informed Preference Voting (IPV) is a type of epistocracy that replaces ordinary democratic votes with a statistical estimate of what voters would have voted if better-informed. Proponents of IPV claim that it is democratic, meaning that is honors certain important aims of democratic voting, namely (i) responsiveness to votes; (ii) rule in accordance with preferences, and (iii) demographic unbiasedness. Consequently, IPV should be acceptable to d…
Voter incompetence and the legitimacy of representative democracy
Ever since its inception, democracy has been subjected to the objection that ordinary citizens are not fit to rule. I discuss and criticize the most influential contemporary version of this argument, due to Jason Brennan, according to which democracy is illegitimate because voters are incompetent. I accept two core premises of Brennan’s argument – that legitimacy requires competence, and that voters are incompetent (in the sense of competence Bre…
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Voter incompetence and the legitimacy of representative democracy
Ever since its inception, democracy has been subjected to the objection that ordinary citizens are not fit to rule. I discuss and criticize the most influential contemporary version of this argument, due to Jason Brennan, according to which democracy is illegitimate because voters are incompetent. I accept two core premises of Brennan’s argument – that legitimacy requires competence, and that voters are incompetent (in the sense of competence Bre…
Informed Preference Voting Is Not Democratic
Informed Preference Voting (IPV) is a type of epistocracy that replaces ordinary democratic votes with a statistical estimate of what voters would have voted if better-informed. Proponents of IPV claim that it is democratic, meaning that is honors certain important aims of democratic voting, namely (i) responsiveness to votes; (ii) rule in accordance with preferences, and (iii) demographic unbiasedness. Consequently, IPV should be acceptable to d…
On the Epistemic Significance of Convergence in Ethical Theory
The major ethical theories—welfarist consequentialism, Kantianism, contractualism, common sense morality, and virtue ethics—appear to converge on the same practical advice in many situations. Such convergence seems epistemically significant. A natural thought would be that the convergence should assure us about the advice. However, what would be the rationale behind this—why should the convergence increase our assurance? That’s the main question …
Democracy (2 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (1 works) · Democratic Theory (1 works) · Epistemic virtue (1 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 works) · Free Will and Agency (1 works) · Game Theory and Voting Systems (1 works) · Law (1 works)