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Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement

A Pragmatist Account

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Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement

A Pragmatist Account

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Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement: A Pragmatist Account offers an account of moral and political disagreement, explaining its nature and showing how we should deal with it. In so doing it strikes a middle path between troublesome dualisms such as those of realism and relativism, rationality and imagination, power and justification. To do so, the book draws on the resources of the pragmatist tradition, claiming that this tradition offers solutions that have for the most part been neglected by the contemporary debate. To prove this claim, the book provides a large account of debates within this tradition and engages its best solutions with contemporary philosophical theories such as perfectionism, critical theory, moral realism, and liberalism. The question of the nature of disagreement is addressed both at the general theoretical level and more specifically with reference to moral and political forms of disagreement. At the more general level, the book proposes a theory of practical rationality based upon the notion of rationality as inquiry. At the second, more specific, level, it aims to show that this conception can solve timely problems that relates to the nature of moral and political reasoning.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Sources of a Pragmatist Theory of Rationality
Chapter 1: Inquiry as the Logic of Practical Reasoning
Chapter 2: From Reasoning to Judgment
Part II. Pragmatist Rationality in Morality and Politics
Chapter 3: Expressive Inquiry
Chapter 4: The Public Sphere
Part III. Relativism, Objectivity, and Justification
Chapter 5: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Fact of Relativism
Chapter 6: A Pragmatic Theory of Objectivity
Chapter 7: Why Justification Matters?
Chapter 8: Pragmatism as an Epistemology of Practice

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Published 05 Apr 2012
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 260
ISBN 9780739170670
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 237 x 162 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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