Gerald F Gaus
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1036263 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gerald F Gaus |
| PRENOMES | Gerald F |
| SOBRENOME | Gaus |
| ASSINATURA | GAUS G F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1668-1651 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Modern Liberal Theory of Man
First published in 1983. The primary argument of this book is that there is a coherent tradition of liberal thinking that extends from L. S. Mill, through liberals like T. H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, L. T. Hobhouse and John Dewey to John Rawls. The author places Rawls within a longstanding tradition of liberal thinking, while also arguing that Green and Hobhouse are not simply of historical interest but represent genuine and interesting attempts…
The Tyranny of the Ideal
This book lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. It shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. The book argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entir…
Handbook of Political Theory
The Tyranny of the Ideal
Social Philosophy
This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behaviour. Gaus acquaints the reader with the major figures in social philosophy - John Stuart Mi…
Public reason liberalism
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The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalis…
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features unique to the Companion are:• an extensive coverage of the history of social and political thought, including separate chapters on the development of political thought in…
The Order of Public Reason
In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised and more realistic account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and political order that treats all as free and equal moral persons. The first part of this work analyzes social morality as a system of authoritative moral rules. Drawing on an earlier generation of moral philosoph…
The roles of religious conviction in a publicly justified polity
We discuss whether religious reasons may be appealed to in justification and political debate in a polity whose laws must be justified to those subject to them in terms of reasons that are accessible to one and all. We argue that, properly understood, a commitment to public justification provides no grounds for the exclusion of religious reasons from politics. We trace the view that religious reasons are excluded from public reason to three basic…
Reasonable utility functions and playing the cooperative way
In this essay I dispute the widely held view that utility theory and decision theory are formalizations of instrumental rationality. I show that the decision theoretic framework has no deep problems accommodating the “reasonable” qua a preference to engage in fair cooperation as such. All evaluative criteria relevant to choice can be built into a von Neumann‐Morgenstern utility function. I focus on the claim that, while rational choice‐driven age…
The (Severe) Limits of Deliberative Democracy as the Basis for Political Choice
This essay analyses optimal voting rules for one form of deliberative democracy. Drawing on public choice analysis, it is argued that (i) the voting rule that best institutionalises deliberative democracy is a type of a supermajority rule. Deliberative democracy is also committed to (ii) the standard neutrality condition according to which if x votes are enough to select alternative A, x votes must be enough to select not-A. Taken together, these…
Expert Political Judgment
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? By Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.This is a wonderful and important book. Philip Tetlock is a political psychologist who has a knack for innovative research projects (e.g., his earlier work on how people cope with trade-offs in politics). In this book, he addresses a question that would scare away more timid souls: How wel…
The Rights Recognition Thesis
T. H. Green argues that rights are socially recognised powers for promoting the common good. This chapter defends a version of this recognition thesis, arguing that it follows from this moral internalism conjoined with plausible claims about the correlativity of rights and duties. It then argues that for Green grounding rights on the common good is not simply a normative claim, but a conceptual feature of rights, one that again relates to his mor…
Green's Rights Recognition Thesis and Moral Internalism
T. H. Green claimed that ‘rights are made by recognition. There is no right but thinking makes it so’. This ‘rights recognition thesis’ is widely rejected. I argue in this article that, so far from being an idiosyncratic doctrine of 19 th -century British Idealism, the rights recognition thesis implies a compelling conception of rights, and one that, surprisingly, is more in tune with contemporary meta-ethics than are many contemporary rights the…
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell , Fairness versus Welfare (Cambridge, MA
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The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms
Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism
Skepticism and Freedom
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism
Backwards Into the Future
Socialism, understood as the rejection of markets based on private property in favor of comprehensive centralized economic planning, is no longer a serious political option. If the core of capitalism is the organization of the economy primarily through market competition based on private property, then capitalism has certainly defeated socialism. Markets have been accepted—and central planning abandoned—throughout most of the Third World and in m…
What is Deontology? Part One
What is Deontology? Part Two
Liberalism at the end of the century
At the close of the twentieth century liberalism has apparently vanquished its traditional rivals. However, whatever cause for celebration liberals might derive from their political victories over conservatives and socialists, in an important respect the twentieth century has been a disappointment for liberal theory. The same antinomies or tensions that marked it at the close of the nineteenth century characterize it today. In this essay I show h…
Reasonable Pluralism and the Domain of the Political
Under free institutions the exercise of human reason leads to a plurality of reasonable, yet irreconcilable doctrines. Rawls's political liberalism is intended as a response to this fundamental feature of modern democratic life. Justifying coercive political power by appeal to any one (or sample) of these doctrines is, Rawls believes, oppressive and illiberal. If we are to achieve unity without oppression, he tells us, we must all affirm a public…
Justificatory Liberalism
The roles of religious conviction in a publicly justified polity
We discuss whether religious reasons may be appealed to in justification and political debate in a polity whose laws must be justified to those subject to them in terms of reasons that are accessible to one and all. We argue that, properly understood, a commitment to public justification provides no grounds for the exclusion of religious reasons from politics. We trace the view that religious reasons are excluded from public reason to three basic…
Expert Political Judgment
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? By Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.This is a wonderful and important book. Philip Tetlock is a political psychologist who has a knack for innovative research projects (e.g., his earlier work on how people cope with trade-offs in politics). In this book, he addresses a question that would scare away more timid souls: How wel…
The Rational, the Reasonable and Justification
Skepticism and Freedom
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism
The (Severe) Limits of Deliberative Democracy as the Basis for Political Choice
This essay analyses optimal voting rules for one form of deliberative democracy. Drawing on public choice analysis, it is argued that (i) the voting rule that best institutionalises deliberative democracy is a type of a supermajority rule. Deliberative democracy is also committed to (ii) the standard neutrality condition according to which if x votes are enough to select alternative A, x votes must be enough to select not-A. Taken together, these…
Green's Rights Recognition Thesis and Moral Internalism
T. H. Green claimed that ‘rights are made by recognition. There is no right but thinking makes it so’. This ‘rights recognition thesis’ is widely rejected. I argue in this article that, so far from being an idiosyncratic doctrine of 19 th -century British Idealism, the rights recognition thesis implies a compelling conception of rights, and one that, surprisingly, is more in tune with contemporary meta-ethics than are many contemporary rights the…
Public justification and democratic adjudication
Are Property Rights Problematic?
Journal Article Are Property Rights Problematic? Get access Gerald F. Gaus, Gerald F. Gaus University of Minnesota at Duluth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Loren E. Lomasky Loren E. Lomasky University of Minnesota at Duluth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 73, Issue 4, 1 October 1990, Pages 483–503, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist1990…
Value and Justification
This important new book takes as its points of departure two questions: What is the nature of valuing? and What morality can be justified in a society that deeply disagrees on what is truly valuable? In Part One, the author develops a theory of value that attempts to reconcile reason with passions. Part Two explores how this theory of value grounds our commitment to moral action. The author argues that rational moral action can neither be seen as…
Public justification and democratic adjudication
Value and Justification
This important new book takes as its points of departure two questions: What is the nature of valuing? and What morality can be justified in a society that deeply disagrees on what is truly valuable? In Part One, the author develops a theory of value that attempts to reconcile reason with passions. Part Two explores how this theory of value grounds our commitment to moral action. The author argues that rational moral action can neither be seen as…
Human Morality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Human Morality. By Samuel Scheffler. (New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Pp. 150. Price £22.50.) Gerald F. Gaus Gerald F. Gaus University of Minnesota, Duluth, and Bowling Green State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 172, July 1993, Pages 380–383, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219906 Published: 01 July 1993
Morality and Moral Theory
The Rational, the Reasonable and Justification
Justificatory Liberalism An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory
Justificatory Liberalism advances a theory of personal, public, and political justification. Drawing on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book develops a theory of personally justified belief. Building on this account, it then advances an account of public justification that is more normative and less “populist” than that of “political liberals”. Following the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Kant, Gaus argu…
A System of Rights
Justificatory Liberalism
Justificatory Liberalism advances a theory of personal, public and political justification. Drawing on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book develops a theory of personally justified belief. Building on this account, it then advances an account of public justification that is more normative and less 'populist' than that of 'political liberals'
Reasonable Pluralism and the Domain of the Political
Under free institutions the exercise of human reason leads to a plurality of reasonable, yet irreconcilable doctrines. Rawls's political liberalism is intended as a response to this fundamental feature of modern democratic life. Justifying coercive political power by appeal to any one (or sample) of these doctrines is, Rawls believes, oppressive and illiberal. If we are to achieve unity without oppression, he tells us, we must all affirm a public…
Justificatory Liberalism
Social philosophy
Liberalism at the end of the century
At the close of the twentieth century liberalism has apparently vanquished its traditional rivals. However, whatever cause for celebration liberals might derive from their political victories over conservatives and socialists, in an important respect the twentieth century has been a disappointment for liberal theory. The same antinomies or tensions that marked it at the close of the nineteenth century characterize it today. In this essay I show h…
What is Deontology? Part One
What is Deontology? Part Two
Backwards Into the Future
Socialism, understood as the rejection of markets based on private property in favor of comprehensive centralized economic planning, is no longer a serious political option. If the core of capitalism is the organization of the economy primarily through market competition based on private property, then capitalism has certainly defeated socialism. Markets have been accepted—and central planning abandoned—throughout most of the Third World and in m…
The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms
Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism
Skepticism and Freedom
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism
Green's Rights Recognition Thesis and Moral Internalism
T. H. Green claimed that ‘rights are made by recognition. There is no right but thinking makes it so’. This ‘rights recognition thesis’ is widely rejected. I argue in this article that, so far from being an idiosyncratic doctrine of 19 th -century British Idealism, the rights recognition thesis implies a compelling conception of rights, and one that, surprisingly, is more in tune with contemporary meta-ethics than are many contemporary rights the…
Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell , Fairness versus Welfare (Cambridge, MA
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rights Recognition Thesis
T. H. Green argues that rights are socially recognised powers for promoting the common good. This chapter defends a version of this recognition thesis, arguing that it follows from this moral internalism conjoined with plausible claims about the correlativity of rights and duties. It then argues that for Green grounding rights on the common good is not simply a normative claim, but a conceptual feature of rights, one that again relates to his mor…
Expert Political Judgment
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? By Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.This is a wonderful and important book. Philip Tetlock is a political psychologist who has a knack for innovative research projects (e.g., his earlier work on how people cope with trade-offs in politics). In this book, he addresses a question that would scare away more timid souls: How wel…
Reasonable utility functions and playing the cooperative way
In this essay I dispute the widely held view that utility theory and decision theory are formalizations of instrumental rationality. I show that the decision theoretic framework has no deep problems accommodating the “reasonable” qua a preference to engage in fair cooperation as such. All evaluative criteria relevant to choice can be built into a von Neumann‐Morgenstern utility function. I focus on the claim that, while rational choice‐driven age…
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