John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy

Ivan Cerovac is research fellow at the University of Rijeka.

"Deep, insightful, useful, brilliant. Cerovac's book is a much needed re-reading of one of the finest political philosophers of modernity, John Stuart Mill. It reveals how much contemporary discussions about the epistemic value of democracy, the importance of civic education or about how critical public deliberation and political representation are for democratic legitimacy, are indebted to the innovative ideas of Mill, and how much we can still learn from this classic." --Jos? L. Mart?, Pompeu Fabra University "John Stuart Mill is one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy. This welcome book is a very helpful guide to better understanding Mill's contributions to moral and political philosophy that will be of much value to students and scholars." --Thom Brooks, Durham University "Utilitarianism of Mill's sort has fallen on hard times, but Mill's sophisticated goal-oriented advocacy of the development and deployment of knowledge does not depend on utilitarianism for its interest. Mill's provocative advocacy of plural voting is well known, but Cerovac pulls together all of the strands, persuasively arguing for an original and illuminating epistemic reading of Mill's political philosophy." --David Estlund, Brown University