Fabienne Peter

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Fabienne Peter is a contemporary political philosopher at the University of Warwick whose work centers on political legitimacy, democratic theory, and the epistemic foundations of political authority. She is known for developing procedural and epistemic accounts of democratic legitimacy and for her contributions to debates about public reason and the justification of political institutions.

Notable Achievements

Authored 'Democratic Legitimacy' (2009), a systematic account of procedural and epistemic justifications for democracy

Developed influential work on the epistemic dimensions of political authority and public reason

Contributed to debates on fair proceduralism versus epistemic democracy

Applied social epistemology to questions of political legitimacy and institutional design

Engaged foundational questions about property regulation and the role of representative institutions

Positions & Arguments(1)

Democracy & Governance

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Locke's argument for representative institutions deciding property regulation and taxation moves toward a genuinely democratic conception of legitimate authority.