Whence the Demand for Ethical Theory?

American Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2): 135–46. 2021. doi:10.2307/48614001

Offers a practical derivation of the need for public and judicial reasoning to take a more discursive and consistent form than private deliberation (a theme more fully explored in ch. 10 of my second book).

public reason, ethical theory, genealogy, metaethics, legitimacy, conceptual change

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