1. Introduction; 2. Social Contract Theory, Old and New; 3. Worlds Apart: On Moral Realism and Constructivism; 4. Freedom and Phenomenal Persons; 5. Rawls's Epistemological Tension: The Original Position, Reflective Equilibrium, and Objectivity; 6. Dewey, Rawls, and Education; Bibliography; Index.
Eric Thomas Weber is assistant professor of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi, USA. He has published in Human Studies, Review of Policy Research, Skepsis, William James Studies, Contemporary Pragmatism, and Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.
Eric Thomas Weber's excellent book raises a constructivist
challenge against Rawls's constructivism... In his short,
tightly-argued book, Weber further develops the constructivist
criticism of Rawls in creatively comparing and contrasting the
views of Rawls and Dewey.--Sanford Lakoff
"Eric Thomas Weber's excellent book raises a constructivist
challenge against Rawls's constructivism...Weber's Deweyan critique
of Rawls's constructivist conception of justice points to the
difficulty in grasping Kantian constructivism. In Rawls's writings,
the reference to Kantian constructivism is so vague as to be
essentially meaningless. That is one of the implications of this
very useful book." - --Sanford Lakoff "Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews "
"Eric Weber provides a well considered and carefully crafted
analysis of the work of John Rawls from a Pragmatist perspective.
Chapter six alone, 'Dewey and Rawls on Education, ' is worth the
price of admission." - Larry A. Hickman, Center for Dewey Studies,
Southern Illinois University, USA
"Eric Thomas Weber's comparative study identifies a deep Kantian
tension between constructivism and representationalism in Rawls.
His well informed, very clear and persuasive critique of Rawls
highlights the many resources of Dewey's constructivism and
constructivist epistemology for democratic political philosophy." -
Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University, USA
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