Add to ORKGIn this paper I examine the compatibility of truth and public reason in the process\ud of public justification in John Rawls???s Political Liberalism. I argue against Joshua\ud Cohen???s proposal that a political conception of truth is available for public reason. I\ud conclude that the political conception of truth does not resolve the problem of truthfs\ud exclusion from public reason. To support this I present the following argument: (1)\ud If Cohen???s truth conception resolves the discrepancy between truth and public reason\ud then it is either (a) an internal or (b) an external claim; (2) in either case (a) or (b)\ud Cohenfs political conception of truth is unsatisfactory on its own terms. I provide\ud support for accepting (1) as a p...
Contemporary liberal philosophers have spent considerable time defending a public reason liberal pol...
A strength of liberal political institutions is their ability to accommodate pluralism, both allowin...
At the core of public reason liberalism is the idea that the exercise of political power is legitima...
Critics and defenders of Rawls' idea of public reason have tended to neglect the relationship betwee...
Critics and defenders of Rawls’ idea of public reason have tended to neglect the relationship betwee...
Political Liberalism is a major addition to the political theory of John Rawls. In many respects, it...
The paper considers an important problem set against the backcloth of John Rawls’s political liberal...
Recently, several theorists have argued that John Rawls’s political liberalism, with its notion of p...
In this Essay, I examine some apparent difficulties with what I call the actualization criterion c...
In the large body of literature concerning John Rawls’s Political Liberalism (1993) and his concepti...
Public justification in political liberalism is often conceptualized in light of Rawls’s view of its...
(Please note: the main ideas of this paper are restated in revised/developed form in: "On actualist ...
Rawlsian idea of public reason refers to the boundaries on political justification of coercive laws ...
Since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, John Rawls has refined, qualified, and enriche...
This dissertation is concerned with the viability of the idea of liberal public reason. This idea be...
Contemporary liberal philosophers have spent considerable time defending a public reason liberal pol...
A strength of liberal political institutions is their ability to accommodate pluralism, both allowin...
At the core of public reason liberalism is the idea that the exercise of political power is legitima...
Critics and defenders of Rawls' idea of public reason have tended to neglect the relationship betwee...
Critics and defenders of Rawls’ idea of public reason have tended to neglect the relationship betwee...
Political Liberalism is a major addition to the political theory of John Rawls. In many respects, it...
The paper considers an important problem set against the backcloth of John Rawls’s political liberal...
Recently, several theorists have argued that John Rawls’s political liberalism, with its notion of p...
In this Essay, I examine some apparent difficulties with what I call the actualization criterion c...
In the large body of literature concerning John Rawls’s Political Liberalism (1993) and his concepti...
Public justification in political liberalism is often conceptualized in light of Rawls’s view of its...
(Please note: the main ideas of this paper are restated in revised/developed form in: "On actualist ...
Rawlsian idea of public reason refers to the boundaries on political justification of coercive laws ...
Since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, John Rawls has refined, qualified, and enriche...
This dissertation is concerned with the viability of the idea of liberal public reason. This idea be...
Contemporary liberal philosophers have spent considerable time defending a public reason liberal pol...
A strength of liberal political institutions is their ability to accommodate pluralism, both allowin...
At the core of public reason liberalism is the idea that the exercise of political power is legitima...