Keith Sutherland
Abstract: Daniela Cammack’s rejoinder to my claim that lawmaking juries would not contravene Rousseauian strictures on popular sovereignty argued that all citizens should register their ‘willingness’. This short response focuses on the inherent Cartesianism in the notion of volunté in contemporary social philosophy, and contrasts it with the contingent/situated/biological perspective of cognitive science and philosophy of mind. This has important implications for democratic decision making.