Many political philosophers have held that democracy has epistemic benefits. Most commonly, this case is made by arguing that democracies are better able to track the truth than other political arrangements. Truth, however, is not the only epistemic good that is politically valuable. A number of other epistemic goods – goods including evidence, intellectual virtue, epistemic justice, and empathetic understanding – can also have political value, and in ways that go beyond the value of truth. In this paper, I will survey those who have argued that democracy can be valuable because of these other epistemic benefits, considering (1) the ways in which these epistemic goods can be of political value and (2) the challenges that democracies face in producing them.

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民主的认知目标

许多政治哲学家认为民主具有认知上的好处。最常见的是，这种情况是通过论证民主国家比其他政治安排能够更好地追踪真相来提出的。然而，真理并不是唯一具有政治价值的认知善。许多其他认知商品——包括证据、智力美德、认知正义和同理心理解——也可以具有政治价值，而且其价值超越了真理的价值。在本文中，我将调查那些认为民主由于这些其他认知益处而有价值的人，考虑到（1）这些认知商品具有政治价值的方式以及（2）民主国家在生产过程中面临的挑战他们。