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Works involving Oliver Dowlen

  • The Political Potential of Sortition

    A study of the random selection of citizens for public office
    (Author)

    The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community.

  • Sortition

    Theory and Practice
    (Edited by)

    Essays deriving from the conference "Selection by Lottery: Theory and Practice" held in 2008 under the auspices of Sciences Po, in Paris.

Featured Titles

  • Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973

  • Becoming Artificial
    A Philosophical Exploration into Artificial Intelligence and What it Means to be Human
    Danial Sonik

  • Selfhood, Autism and Thought Insertion

  • Lady Mary Shepherd
    Selected Writings

  • Seeing
    Beyond Dreaming to Religious Experiences of Light
    George Gillespie

  • Consciousness and Its Place in Nature
    Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism (2nd Ed.)
    Galen Strawson

  • The Keys to Democracy
    Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power
    Maurice Pope

  • Sortition and Democracy
    History, Tools, Theories

  • The Hope of the Poor
    Philosophy, Religion and Economic Development
    Gordon Graham

  • Humberto Maturana
    Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds