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.
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.