Finding Space for the Truth
Joshua Cohen on Truth and Public Reason
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12569080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jethro Butler (0000-0002-9388-0451, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-347 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Politicas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1576-4184 • E-ISSN: 1989-6115 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11158-016-9333-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2521356385 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
One of the most distinctive and startling claims of Rawlsian political liberalism is that truth has no place in public political deliberation on matters of basic justice. Joshua Cohen thinks there is a tension between Rawls’s exclusion of truth in public political deliberation and the importance accorded to truth in the conception of morally serious political deliberation held by most citizens. Cohen claims that this apparent tension can be resolved by constructing and introducing a suitably political, non-divisive and neutral, conception of truth which is capable of satisfying both the highly distinctive requirements of Rawlsian political liberalism and the importance accorded to truth by the conception of public deliberation held by most citizens. In this paper I argue that Cohen is unsuccessful in this attempt and that his political conception of truth cannot satisfy both political liberalism and a descriptively adequate specification of the importance accorded to truth by the familiar accounts of morally serious political deliberation upon which Cohen relies
Classical liberalism · Deliberation · Democracy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public reason · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
The Insularity of the Reasonable
Rescuing Justice and Equality
Facing Diversity
I – Derek Parfit
Must Democracy Be Reasonable?
The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
Reflections on Habermas on Democracy
Individuals
Liberalism, Deliberative Democracy, and “Reasons that All Can Accept”
Truth and Public Reason
The Arc of the Moral Universe
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |