What Facts Should be Treated as ‘Fixed’ in Public Justification?
Social Epistemology 33 (6):491-502 (2019)
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ABSTRACTIn his account of public reason Rawls assumes that some facts ought to be treated as ‘fixed’, or beyond reasonable disagreement. These include, for him, facts upon which there is a scientif...Author's Profile
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10.1080/02691728.2019.1637965
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