In a footnote to the first edition of Political Liberalism, John Rawls introduced an example of
how public reason could deal with controversial issues. He intended this example to show …

Rawls does not have to be explicit about gender or sex issues to be on the pro-choice side
of the abortion debate. If we examine Rawls' principles of justice and his veil of ignorance …

The concept of public reason is one of the most important and widely discussed ideas drawn
from the post–A Theory of Justice writings of John Rawls. In the course of developing that …

proposed by John Rawls is determined by what that govern the society after the parties
leave the would be the decision of persons in the original original position. 1" To read this …

McCarthy, Homan, and Rozier (2020) state that the Christian bioethical categories, namely
sin, human dignity, and the common good, can shed light on bioethical issues, whereas …

Two different discussions in John Rawls' A Theory of Justice lead naturally to a rather
conservative position on the moral status of the human embryo. When discussing …

John Rawls has held up as a model of public reason the US Supreme Court. I argue that the
Dobbs Court is justifiably criticized for failing to respect public reason. First, the entire …

Abstract In 'Public Reason and Prenatal Moral Status'(2015), Jeremy Williams argues that
the ideal of Rawlsian public reason commits its devotees to the radically permissive view …

The theory Rawls develops in Political Liberalism1 is, for all its innovations, a form of
liberalism, and as such is at least prima facie subject to a number of familiar feminist …

This paper provides a new analysis and critique of Rawlsian public reason's handling of the
abortion question. It is often claimed that public reason is indeterminate on abortion …