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Public Reason and Reciprocity [PDF]

Journal of Political Philosophy, 2017
This paper addresses the question of when, why, and how duties are appropriately held to be conditional on reciprocity – compliance on the part of others – focusing on the duties associated with the principle of public reason. There are three main ways to conceive of public reason: as unilaterally binding moral principle, as a moral principle that ...
Andrew Lister
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Public policy, rationality and reason [PDF]

Tópicos, 2015
This work suggests the incorporation of practical reason in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies, alongside instrumental rationality. It takes two proposals that today point in this direction: Rawls distinction between reasonable (
Rodolfo Canto Sáenz
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The Fragility of Convergence: Public Reason, Political Liberalism and Stability [PDF]

, 2021
John Rawls’s move from A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism was motivated by his dissatisfaction with the account of stability offered in part III of Theory.
Fryfogle, Paul
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Learning How to Be Infinite [PDF]

Public Reason, 2022
This paper focuses on some of the more controversial points in Jenny Bunker’s reply to Adrian W. Moore concerning his account of Spinoza. In particular, it raises the question of whether Moore has conceived of certain aspects of the relations between ...
Pablo Montosa
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Kant's Account of Personal Development: Comments on Paula Satne [PDF]

Public Reason, 2023
In this paper, I focus on Paula Satne's discussion of moral development in her "Moral Development, Repentance, and Self-affirmation". I argue that, preceding moral development, we can identify in Kant a notion of existential development that foreshadows ...
Jakub Szczepanski
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Democratising public reason [PDF]

, 2021
This thesis is about the relationship between liberalism and democracy. It argues that so-called public reason liberalism, a view of legitimacy that says that citizens must have sufficient reason to accept the laws that bind them, does not pay enough ...

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Respect and Justification: a problem for public reason liberalism [PDF]

, 2014
Public reason liberalism is the most influential position in the debate concerning the problem of reasonable pluralism. The core of this account relies on the idea that coercion must be justified to all citizens with reasons they can reasonably be ...
G. Bistagnino
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Truth-Functional Logic and the Form of a Tractarian Proposition [PDF]

Public Reason, 2022
In this paper I argue against Michael Morris’ claim, that the Tractatus view involves holding that the possibility of truth-functional combination is prior to the possibility for sentential constituents to combine with one another.
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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To What Extent Does Kant's Doctrine of the Highest Good Embody a Realist Orientation Towards Ethics? [PDF]

Public Reason, 2023
In recent years, an increasing body of literature explores the idea that Kant may be read as endorsing a kind of meta-ethical constitutivism. In this paper, I argue that this label only partly fits.
Sasha Mudd
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Is Kantian Ethics Morally Alienating? Comments on Mudd [PDF]

Public Reason, 2023
Kant’s philosophy is notoriously based on the dichotomy between the phenomenal and the noumenal world. This dichotomy digs a rift across human nature by separating the animal and the rational parts of it, its heteronomous and autonomous components, duty ...
Francesco Testini
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