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Reflective Equilibrium: Individual or Public?
- Abstract:
- The paper explores whether the method of reflective equilibrium (RE) in ethics and political philosophy should be individual or public in character. I defend a modestly public conception of RE, in which public opinion is used specifically as a source of considered judgements about cases. Public opinion is superior to philosophical opinion in delivering judgements that are untainted by principled commitments. A case-based approach also mitigates the methodological problems that commonly confront efforts to integrate philosophy with the investigation of popular attitudes. This conception of RE is situated in relation to alternative accounts, including those of Daniels, Rawls and Wolff and de-Shalit.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.5840/soctheorpract20174311
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- Funding agency for:
- Baderin, A
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- Studentship
- Publisher:
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- Journal:
- Social Theory and Practice More from this journal
- Volume:
- 43
- Issue:
- 1
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-25
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2154-123X
- ISSN:
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0037-802X
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pubs:631744
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pubs:631744
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631744
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2016-07-04
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © Copyright 2016 by Social Theory and Practice. This is the accepted manuscript for a paper published by the Philosophy Documentation Center at DOI: 10.5840/soctheorpract20174311
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