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The Scope of Public Reason [PDF]
Political Studies, 2004 This paper presents two conceptions of the scope of public reason. The narrow view asserts that the ideal of public reason must regulate questions of constitutional essentials and matters of basic justice, but should not apply beyond this limited domain.
Jonathan Quong, Quong, Jonathan
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The Completeness of Public Reason
Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2004A common objection to the idea of public reason is that it cannot resolve fundamental political issues because it excludes too many moral considerations from the political domain. Following an important but often overlooked distinction drawn by Gerald Gaus, there are two ways to understand this objection.
Micah Schwartzman
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Social Philosophy and Policy, 1995 Law is the expression of public reason. I want to explicate and justify this assertion, which lies at the core of a normative theory of law. Primarily, I want to focus on the concept of public reason, showing what it is, relating it to private or individual reason, and finding its rationale in that relation.
David Gauthier
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Public reason and the normativity of the reasonable
Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2004The main purpose of the paper is to contribute to reconstructing the kind of normativity underlying Rawls’s notion of public reason and of the reasonable. The implicit target is the somewhat popular view according to which the transition from the framework of A Theory of Justice to that of Political Liberalism would entail a loss of normativity. On the
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Technoethics and Public Reason
International Journal of Technoethics, 2013Public reason specifies the rules under which a political community collectively conducts ethical reasoning. Technoethics needs to incorporate an account of how the technologies it aspires to govern bear on these rules. As the case of biobanks shows, technologies have the capacity to change the exact meanings of concepts that play central roles in ...
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Analytic Philosophy, 2013
This paper is about the book The Order of Public Reason by Gerald Gaus. Before considering some of the key arguments of that book and raising some issues about some of the apparatus Gaus deploys, I would like to begin by saying something about my own trajectory across the terrain of public-reason philosophy.
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This paper is about the book The Order of Public Reason by Gerald Gaus. Before considering some of the key arguments of that book and raising some issues about some of the apparatus Gaus deploys, I would like to begin by saying something about my own trajectory across the terrain of public-reason philosophy.
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Reason of State and Public Reason
Ratio Juris, 2014Abstract“Reason of state” is a concept that is rarely used in contemporary legal and political philosophy, compared to everyday parlance; “public reason,” in contrast, is ubiquitous, especially in liberal philosophy, as a legitimacy‐conferring device. In this article it is argued that the unpopularity of the notion of “reason of state” is partly due to
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