McMahon, Christopher, 1945-

Reasonable disagreement : a theory of political morality / [book] Christopher McMahon - New York : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - viii, 204 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The structure of reasonable disagreement -- The problem -- Disagreement about matters of empirical fact -- Disagreement among epistemic peers -- Reasonable disagreement and political morality -- Moral realism and reasonable political disagreement -- Moral nominalism -- Williams's subjectivism -- Descriptive judgment -- Evaluative judgment -- Moral judgment -- Meta-ethical details -- Agreement and disagreement -- The pressure to agree -- Deliberation and disagreement -- Conceptual identity -- Broad fairness -- The zone of reasonable disagreement -- Resolving reasonable disagreement -- Authority and democracy -- Changing minds -- Dominance -- Mill on moral truth -- The evolution of moral normativity -- Localism -- Relativism and localism -- Borders and migration -- Judging without contact -- The west and the rest -- The future of political morality -- Morality and history -- Historical knowledge -- Judging the past -- Hierarchy -- Rectifying past wrongs -- Apology -- Conclusion

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Reasoning
Political ethics

BC177 / .M39 2009