Fritz Heider was a wanderer, someone who liked to survey and take the measure of whatever he encountered. In his formative years, he was a wanderer in the geographical sense — hiking in his beloved Austrian mountains and traveling throughout much of Europe. In his professional years, he was a wanderer in the intellectual sense — taking daily walks for the purpose of analyzing a difficult concep...

Bhaskar defines the philosopher differently: the philosopher observes the scientist, and sees that the scientist is able to expand knowledge about the world using the methods he is using. The philosopher concludes from this: obviously, the world is such that the methods applied by the scientists allow them to gain knowledge about it. This tells us something very important about the world. The p...

Abstract Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic democratic worries raised by the presence of philos...