I think that’s an improvement though “delegating” sounds a bit formal and it’s usually the authority doing the delegating. Would “deferring on views” vs “deferring on decisions” get what you want?
No, that doesn’t work because epistemic deferring is also often about decisions, and in fact one of the key distinctions I want to make is when someone is deferring on a decision how that can be for epistemic or authority reasons, and how those look different.
I agree it’s slightly awkward that authorities often delegate, but I think that that’s usually delegating tasks; “delegating choices” to me has much less connotation of a high-status person delegating to a low-status person.
Although … one of the examples of “deferring to authority” in my sense is a boss deferring to the authority of a subordinate after the subordinate has been tasked with making a decision, even though the boss disagrees and has the power to override it. With this example, “delegating choice” has very much the right connotation, and “deferring to authority” feels a bit of a stretch.
Just to make sure I understand correctly is”delegating choice” is “delegating a choice (of an action to be made)” ?
If so, I think this is a much better phrase at least than deferring to authority, and would even propose editing the OP to suggest this as an alternative phrase / address this so that others don’t get the wrong impression—based on our conversation it seems we have more agreement than I would have guessed from reading the OP alone.
Perhaps “deferring on views” vs “delegating choices” ?
I think that’s an improvement though “delegating” sounds a bit formal and it’s usually the authority doing the delegating. Would “deferring on views” vs “deferring on decisions” get what you want?
No, that doesn’t work because epistemic deferring is also often about decisions, and in fact one of the key distinctions I want to make is when someone is deferring on a decision how that can be for epistemic or authority reasons, and how those look different.
I agree it’s slightly awkward that authorities often delegate, but I think that that’s usually delegating tasks; “delegating choices” to me has much less connotation of a high-status person delegating to a low-status person.
Although … one of the examples of “deferring to authority” in my sense is a boss deferring to the authority of a subordinate after the subordinate has been tasked with making a decision, even though the boss disagrees and has the power to override it. With this example, “delegating choice” has very much the right connotation, and “deferring to authority” feels a bit of a stretch.
Just to make sure I understand correctly is”delegating choice” is “delegating a choice (of an action to be made)” ?
If so, I think this is a much better phrase at least than deferring to authority, and would even propose editing the OP to suggest this as an alternative phrase / address this so that others don’t get the wrong impression—based on our conversation it seems we have more agreement than I would have guessed from reading the OP alone.
Yeah that does sell me a bit more on delegating choice.