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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

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

  • Is Consciousness Everywhere?
    Essays on Panpsychism

  • Sortition and Democracy
    History, Tools, Theories

  • Seeing
    Beyond Dreaming to Religious Experiences of Light
    George Gillespie

  • Quality of Life
    A Post-Pandemic Philosophy of Medicine
    Robin Downie

  • British Idealism and International Thought
    The Development of Human Rights
    Nazli Pinar Kaymaz

  • Rethinking Thinking
    Problem Solving from Sun Tzu to Google
    Martin Cohen

  • The Nature of Goods and the Goods of Nature
    Why anti-globalisation is not the answer
    Estefania Santacreu-Vasut

  • Charles, The Alternative King
    An Unauthorised Biography
    Edzard Ernst

  • Artivism
    The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism
    Alexander Adams