The legacies of John Rawls

Journal of Moral Philosophy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-365

  D'Agostino, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 34248048249     PISSN: 17404681     EISSN: 17455243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/174046810400100308     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. See my article 'Pluralism and Liberalism', in Gerald Gaus and Chandran Kukathas (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Political Theory (London: Sage, forthcoming) for references. The most important are: W.B. Gallie, 'Essentially Contested Concepts', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1955-56), pp. 167-98
2. Stuart Hampshire, Morality and Conflict (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983)
3. Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (London: Oxford University Press, 1969)
4. and, more recently, J. Donald Moon, 'Liberalism, Autonomy, and Moral Pluralism', Political Theory 31 (2003), pp. 125-35
5. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972)
6. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)
7. See my article 'Rituals of Impartiality', Social Theory and Practice 27 (2001), pp. 65-81
8. See my article 'Expertise, Democracy, and Applied Ethics', Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1998), pp. 49-56
9. For a subtle account articulating directly to Rawlsian concerns, see Martha Nussbaum, 'Moral Expertise? Constitutional Narratives and Philosophical Argument', Metaphilosophy 33 (2002), pp. 502-20
10. See Andrew Fiala, 'Toleration and Pragmatism', Journal of Speculative Philosophy 16 (2002), pp. 103-116
11. and, more recently, John Gray, 'Where Pluralists and Liberals Part Company', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (1998), pp. 17-36
12. John Gray, Post-Liberalism (New York: Routledge, 1993), p. 65
13. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 63
14. Cass Sunstein, 'Incommensurability and Kinds of Valuation', in Ruth Chang (ed.), Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), p. 238
15. See my article 'Incommensurability and Commensuration', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 32 (2000), pp. 429-47
16. See also Peter Achinstein, 'Subjective Views of Kuhn', Perspectives on Science 9 (2001), pp. 423-32
17. T.S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 331
18. See Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), esp. pp. 151-52
19. See Christopher Cherniak, Minimal Rationality (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986), and also my article 'Transcendence and Conversation: Two Conceptions of Objectivity', American Philosophical Quarterly 30 (1993), pp. 87-108
20. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, p. 137
21. I develop an interpretation of this goal in my paper 'Rituals of Impartiality'
22. Most notably John Gray. See his Post-Liberalism, p. 314: 'The importance of several property for civil society is that it acts as an enabling device whereby rival and possibly incommensurable conceptions of the good may be implemented and realized without recourse to any collective decision-procedure'
23. See, for instance, Peter Bogetoft and Peter Pruzan, Planning with Multiple Criteria (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1991)
24. Gray, Post-Liberalism, p. 314
25. Cf. Sunstein, 'Incommensurability and Kinds of Valuation', p. 234: '[T]he traditional liberal effort to use law so as to create diverse social spheres - families, markets, politics, religious organization - makes space for different kinds of valuation'
26. Bruce Ackerman, Social Justice in the Liberal State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980)
27. Free Public Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
28. See G.A. Cohen's 'Facts and Principles', Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (2003), pp. 211-45
29. Richard Rorty, 'Inquiry as Recontextualization' in Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 98-99
30. Elizabeth Anderson, 'Practical Reason and Incommensurable Goods', in Chang (ed.), Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason, pp. 91-92
31. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)