ideological diversity

📖 Definitions

"A group is ideologically diverse with respect to a controversial question X when there are a significant number of members who hold incompatible answers to X (including agnosticism about X). So, ideological diversity is relative to some issue. A group can be diverse in some respects and non-diverse in others." (McBrayer 2024, 616)

💡 Examples

• "For example, a group of faculty might be diverse on the issue of whether charity is supererogatory but non-diverse on whether strict gun control policies are warranted." (McBrayer 2024, 616)

🔗 Relations

• type of: epistemic diversity

📚 References

• McBrayer, Justin P. 2024. “The Epistemic Benefits of Ideological Diversity.” Acta Analytica 39 (January): 611–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-023-00582-z.

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