The Coherence of Public Reason
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23166129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Lister (0000-0002-5834-5971, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-84 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Moral Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-4681 • E-ISSN: 1745-5243 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/17455243-00002431 |
| OpenAlex | W2746793785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Theories of public reason face a dilemma. If their standard of reasonableness is low, the view will be unacceptably anarchic and self-refuting, while if it is high, the exclusion of unreasonable views will manifest unequal treatment. This paper shows how to avoid this dilemma by distinguishing two models of public reason. The coercion model is vulnerable to the worry about anarchy but not self-defeat, while the reasons model is vulnerable to self-defeat but not anarchy. The coercion model can avoid anarchy without idealizing heavily via aggregation of individual policies into packages. The reasons model can avoid self-refutation by making acceptance of public reason one of the conditions for counting as fully reasonable, which is a natural constraint if the justification of the principle is relational.
Coercion (linguistics) · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Constraint (computer-aided design) · Dilemma · Economics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Law and economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Public good · Public reason · Social science · Sociology · Worry · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology
The Limits of Reasonable Disagreement
Can Local Comparative Judgements Justify Moderate Perfectionism?
The Intransparency of Political Legitimacy
Is it Sectarian for a Rawlsian State to Coerce Nozick? – On Political Liberalism and the Sectarian Critique
What Public Reason Liberals Do and Do Not Need to Say About Epistemology
On the Censorship of Conspiracy Theories
Political activism, egalitarian justice, and public reason
Stability and the question of to whom justification is owed
Rawlsian Public Reason and Political Vice
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem
Liberal legitimacy and future citizens
Public reason, values in science, and the shifting boundaries of the political forum
A framework for analyzing public reason theories
| Citations per year | 3.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |