Citizen Deliberation and the Problem of Expertise: resituating Knowledge in Practical Reason

It has been argued that the division between those with and those without knowledge will be one of the primary social tensions in this century. The issue is of particular importance in questions of environmental and technology policy, generally laden with heavy technical questions. Elsewhere I have argued that this is perhaps the critical question upon which the possibility of democracy ultimately hinges in a world of complexities. Can citizens actually participate? We know less about this th..