El martes, 29 de noviembre, a las 11.30, tuvo lugar una nueva sesión del TeC-FiloLab, con Cristina Corredor Lanas, profesora titular de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). A continuación tenéis el título y un resumen de su charla, que dio lugar a una interesante discusión sobre cómo considerar la autoridad epistémica de las personas afectadas a la hora de establecer definiciones y marcos normativos en situaciones de deliberación pública.
Normative definitions in the public sphere, political participation and authority in illocution
In many cases, written norms (laws, regulations, policies, etc.) issued by a political authority define and so fix the meaning of certain terms that were already in use (for example, ‘violence against women’, ‘rare disease’, or ‘terrorism’.) The question arises who is entitled to participate in democratic political consultations oriented to formulate those norms. The notion of authoritative illocution (following Langton, 1993) can be fruitfully applied to the analysis of political deliberative processes of fixing a definition where entitlement to participate is related to the identities of the interlocutors. My aim is to argue for the view that those who will result directly affected by the norm and whose experiences have been shaped by the events and conditions, etc. being defined have not only political legitimacy but also epistemic authority to contribute to such definition.
