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Gerald F. Gaus
Other affiliations: University of Minnesota, Australian National University, Tulane University
Bio: Gerald F. Gaus is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public reason & Classical liberalism. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 102 publications receiving 2924 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerald F. Gaus include University of Minnesota & Australian National University.
Topics: Public reason, Classical liberalism, Liberalism, Politics, Morality
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TL;DR: Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? By Philip E. Tetlock as discussed by the authors is a political psychologist who has a knack for innovative research projects (e.g., his earlier work on how people cope with trade-offs in politics).
Abstract: Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? By Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This is a wonderful and important book. Philip Tetlock is a political psychologist who has a knack for innovative research projects (e.g., his earlier work on how people cope with trade-offs in politics). In this book, he addresses a question that would scare away more timid souls: How well do experts predict political and economic events?
326 citations
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Justificatory liberalism as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of personally justified belief, and then advances an account of public justification that is more normative and less 'populist' than that of 'political liberals'.
Abstract: Justificatory Liberalism advances a theory of personal, public and political justification. Drawing on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book develops a theory of personally justified belief. Building on this account, it then advances an account of public justification that is more normative and less 'populist' than that of 'political liberals'.
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18 Jun 2012TL;DR: The fundamental problem of social order and social morality is discussed in this article. But it is not the fundamental problem we are concerned with in this paper, it is the problem of moral equilibrium and moral freedom.
Abstract: 1. The fundamental problem Part I. Social Order and Social Morality: 2. The failure of instrumentalism 3. Social morality as the sphere of rules 4. Emotion and reason in social morality Part II. Real Public Reason: 5. The justificatory problem and the deliberative model 6. The rights of the moderns 7. Moral equilibrium and moral freedom 8. The moral and political orders Appendix A: the plurality of morality Appendix B: Mozick's attempt to solve the prisoner's dilemma Appendix C: deontic utility functions Appendix D: the Kantian coordination game Appendix E: protection of property rights and economic freedom in states that do best at protecting civil rights.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that, properly understood, a commitment to public justification provides no grounds for the exclusion of religious reasons from politics, and they trace the view that religious reasons are excluded from public reason to three basic errors: (1) the error of supposing that public justification must be based on shared reasons; (2) the same constraints apply to reasons to impose coercion and reasons to resist coercion; and (3) the inference that generating publicly justified laws must occur through public deliberations in which all aim at such laws.
Abstract: We discuss whether religious reasons may be appealed to in justification and political debate in a polity whose laws must be justified to those subject to them in terms of reasons that are accessible to one and all. We argue that, properly understood, a commitment to public justification provides no grounds for the exclusion of religious reasons from politics. We trace the view that religious reasons are excluded from public reason to three basic errors: (1) the error of supposing that public justification must be based on shared reasons; (2) the error of supposing that in public justification the same constraints apply to reasons to impose coercion and reasons to resist coercion; and (3) the error of supposing that generating publicly justified laws must occur through public deliberations in which all aim at such laws.
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01 Jan 1982
Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index
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TL;DR: The authors argues that organizational structure is not gender neutral; on the contrary, assumptions about gender underlie the documents and contracts used to construct organizations and to provide the commonsense ground for theorizing about them.
Abstract: In spite of feminist recognition that hierarchical organizations are an important location of male dominance, most feminists writing about organizations assume that organizational structure is gender neutral. This article argues that organizational structure is not gender neutral; on the contrary, assumptions about gender underlie the documents and contracts used to construct organizations and to provide the commonsense ground for theorizing about them. Their gendered nature is partly masked through obscuring the embodied nature of work. Abstract jobs and hierarchies, common concepts in organizational thinking, assume a disembodies and universal worker. This worker is actually a man; men's bodies, sexuality, and relationships to procreation and paid work are subsumed in the image of the worker. Images of men's bodies and masculinity pervade organizational processes, marginalizing women and contributing to the maintenance of gender segregation in organizations. The positing of gender-neutral and disembodie...
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TL;DR: In their new Introduction, the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future as mentioned in this paper, which is a new immediacy.
Abstract: Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\
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