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- Reflective Equilibrium - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Equilibrium is reached where principles and judgments have been revised such that they agree with each other In short, the method of reflective equilibrium is the mutual adjustment of principles and judgments in the light of relevant argument and theory
- Reasonable Disagreement and Rational Group Inquiry
In this paper I argue that this common picture of ideal rational group inquiry interacts with epistemic problems concerning reasonable disagreement in a way that makes those problems particularly difficult to resolve
- Foolish Consistency: On Equality, Integrity, and Justice in Stare Decisis
American law is not a strict one: Courts can decline to follow their own previous decisions when those precedents are judged to be clearly in error 7 Lawyers and judges, moreover, regularly display amazing ingenuity in "distinguishing" unfavorable precedents that otherwise would be "controlling "
- The rules and aims of inquiry - Oxford Academic
I further consider cases in which the aims of inquiry recommend breaking epistemic norms I compare them to strategic infractions, which are common in many coherent games Finally, I explore the connections between rules and aims in games and in inquiry
- PHIL 181 - Lecture 21 - Equality | Open Yale Courses
The lecture concludes with an exploration of two substantive principles of justice which Rawls derives from his framework: the equal liberty principle, and the difference principle
- Weltman - Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy
This paper defends the epistemic account of the normativity of requests The epistemic account says that a request does not create any reasons and thus does not have any special normative power Rather, a request gives reasons by revealing information which is normatively relevant
- sidetracked. In order to show that a principle of equal concern and . . .
But exactly how does the principle of "equal concern and respect" differ from a principle of formal equality in determining how far such tie-breaking considerations are allowed to count?
- Equality Beyond Needs-Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation
In a series of three experiments, we show that experimental evidence does not allow us to settle the intuitiveness of each theory: laypeople are divided in the consideration of the respective importance of needs and equality
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