The public perspective : public justification and the ethics of belief /: public justification and the ethics of belief. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maria Paola Ferretti.
• Authors: Ferretti, Maria Paola
• Contents: The Public Perspective; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The Public Perspective: An Introduction; 1.1 Why Public Justification?; 1.2 The Need for an Ethics of Belief; 1.3 Book Outline; 2 Public Reasoning and Agreement; 2.1 Liberals and Justification; 2.2 Three 'Modes' of Liberal Justification; 2.3 Justification and Agreement; 2.4 Rawls and Shared Agreement; 2.5 Gaus and Joint Agreement; 2.6 The Practice of Public Reasoning; 3 The Ethics of Belief and the Liberal Tradition; 3.1 Liberalism, Reasons and Beliefs; 3.2 Foundationalism versus Coherentism; 3.3 Alethic Obligation 3.4 Beliefs in a Political Discourse3.5 Different Opinions and the Ambiguity of Belief; 3.6 The Method of Probability; 3.7 What Probability Can Do; 3.8 What Probability and Evidence Cannot Do; 3.9 The Ethics of Belief and Its Limits; 4 Having Reasons and Giving Reasons; 4.1 From Locke to Contemporary Theories of Consensus; 4.2 Political Uses of the 'Reasonable'; 4.3 Galileo: Proof, Reasons and Consensus; 4.4 What Makes a Belief 'Publicly Givable'?; 4.5 The Reasons That We Have and the Reasons That We Give; 5 Facing Disagreement; 5.1 Justification and the Ethics of Belief 5.2 Beyond Factual Beliefs5.3 Meaning Variance; 5.4 Plural Values and Comparability; 5.5 Argument Breakdown; 5.6 Inconclusive Justification; 6 Equal Freedom; 6.1 Public Justification and Freedom; 6.2 The Non-Specific Value of Freedom; 6.3 A Natural Right to Freedom; 6.4 Defending Equal Freedom; 6.5 First Things First: Freedom; 7 Liberal Multiculturalism; 7.1 What Is the Value in Cultural Difference?; 7.2 Giving Reasons to Some; 7.3 Equality and Difference; 7.4 Groups and Life Experiments; 7.5 Toleration; 8 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Publisher Details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.011; Philosophy: Epistemology; Justification (Ethics); Justice; Political ethics; Liberalism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Philosophy: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786608734; 1786608731
• Related ISBNs: 9781786608727
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 18, 2018).
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