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218Public Reason Liberalism and the Certification of Scientific ClaimsSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (8): 8-14. 2019.
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2017Public reason, non-public reasons, and the accessibility requirementCanadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (8): 1062-1082. 2019.In Liberalism without Perfection, Jonathan Quong develops what is perhaps the most comprehensive defense of the consensus model of public reason – a model which incorporates both a public-reasons-only requirement and an accessibility requirement framed in terms of shared evaluative standards. While the consensus model arguably predominates amongst public reason liberals, it is criticized by convergence theorists who reject both the public-reasons-only requirement and the accessibility requiremen…Read more
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646Moderate Idealization and Information Acquisition ResponsibilitiesRes Publica 22 (4): 445-462. 2016.I argue that advocates of moderate epistemic idealization need some standards against which they can determine whether a particular individual P has a responsibility to acquire some specific piece of information α. Such a specification is necessary for the purpose of determining whether a reason R, the recognition of which depends on accounting for α, can legitimately be ascribed to P. To this end, I propose an initial sketch of a criterion that may be helpful in illuminating the conditions in w…Read more
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2909The Separateness of Persons: A Moral Basis for a Public Justification RequirementJournal of Value Inquiry 51 (3): 491-505. 2017.In morally grounding a public justification requirement, public reason liberals frequently invoke the idea that persons should be construed as “free and equal.” But this tells us little with regard to what it is about us that makes us free or how a claim about our status as persons can ultimately ground a requirement of public justification. In light of this worry, I argue that a public justification requirement can be grounded in a Nozick-inspired argument from the separateness of persons (one …Read more
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2535Culture and Diversity in John Stuart Mill's Civic NationUtilitas 25 (1): 96-120. 2013.In this article, I develop a conception of multiculturalism that is compatible with Mill's liberal framework. I argue, drawing from Mill's conception of the nation-state, that he would expect cultural minorities to assimilate fully into the political sphere of the dominant culture, but to assimilate only minimally, if at all, into the cultural sphere. I also argue that while Mill cannot permit cultural accommodations in the form of self-government rights, he would allow for certain accommodation…Read more