Reconstructing public reason

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Task before Us 1. The Present Dilemma 2. What Pragmatism Is (and Is Not) 3. Overview PART I. TOWARD A PRAGMATIC THEORY OF POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION 1. The Tyranny of Minimalism 1. Does Justification Matter? 2. The Limits of Proceduralism 3. The Limits of Agonism 4. Pragmatic Justification 5. Beyond Minimalism 2. Prospectivism and the to 1. Scope of the Problem 2. Belief and Will 3. Belief and Evidence 4. Belief and Context 5. Pragmatism and the Will to Believe 3. Narrative and Moral Reasoning 1. Narrative and Moral Experience 2. Narrative and Moral Ontology 3. Narrative and Evidence 4. Narrative and Doubt 5. Narrative and Public Discourse PART II. PRAGMATISM AND DEMOCRACY 4. Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence 1. Acquiescent Pragmatism 2. The Problem of Context 3. Experience as Experiment 4. Science and Democracy 5. Pragmatism and Egalitarianism 5. Against Deweyan Democracy 1. The Deweyan Revival 2. The Hegelian Deposit 3. Individuality and Community 4. The Problem with the Public 5. Dewey's Enduring Contribution Part III. Political Liberalism 6. Political Liberalism and the Limits of the Political 1. Desiderata 2. Public Justifiability 3. Right and Reasonable 4. Right and Good 5. Public Reason and Reasonable Disagreement 6. Two Difficulties 7. Public Reason and Public Institutions 1. Embodying Public Reason 2. Disagreement, Consensus, and Respect 3. The Judicial Model 4. Insincerity Examined 5. The Federal Model 6. Is Injustice Justifiable? 8. The Fact of Reasonable Disagreement 1. The Pluralist Narrative 2. Is Pluralism Necessary? 3. Is Pluralism Permanent? 4. The Fallibilist Narrative 5. Fallibilism without Skepticism 6. Legitimacy without Neutrality Conclusion: Liberalism after Minimalism Index