Introducing José Medina's The Epistemology of Resistance
In which I summarize the Introduction of Medina's groundbreaking 2013 book, which deals with the problem of pluralistic discourse in a democracy, and our individual and collective epistemic responsibilities in creating and maintaining a working democratic society.
Medina introduces what he calls a "resistance model" of democracy, on which we are not trying to build consensus, but instead live with and make use of epistemic friction and epistemic resistance in order to continuously revise and improve upon our community norms and practices to try, little by little, to build a better future.