1. Introduction 2. Social Contract Theory, Old and New 3. Worlds Apart: On Moral Realism and Two Constructivisms 4. Freedom and Phenomenal Persons 5. Rawls's Epistemological Tension: The Original Position, Reflective Equilibrium, and Objectivity 6. Dewey and Rawls on Education Bibliography Index
Examines problems in Rawls' epistemology, approached from a Deweyan perspective, to argue for a thoroughly constructivist idea of justice and its practical implications for education.
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. He is the author of Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism (Continuum, 2010).
... Weber's critique is respectful rather than polemical, remaining
robust but also judicious and collegial throughout... What
distinguishes this work is its comprehensive identification of Kant
as the primary source of epistemological ambiguity in Rawls and the
subsequent force of Weber's rich illustration of the merits of
Deweyan philosophy in plugging these deficiencies and more.
*Political Studies Review Vol. 10*
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.
*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
‘Weber's Rawls, Dewey and Constructivism provides a welcome
addition tothe Rawls literature by offering a Deweyan critique
of,and alternative to, Rawlsian constructivism....In the
contemporary political and economic climate, Weber's call for
strengthening the American tradition of public, humanistic
education is refreshing.'
*H' Net Review*
"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." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
*Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
Weber’s first book covers more territory than its title suggests,
and provides concise, relevant, and accurate summaries of a host of
philosophers from Kant’s contemporaries to ours. The relevance of
Dewey’s philosophy of education to political philosophy and its
ability to resolve the tensions within the dominant philosophy of
Rawls, suggests that there is a need for this book...Weber’s
assessment of Rawls’s constructivism will help readers determine if
Deweyan pragmatists should in fact be Rawlsians, as Talisse
provocatively suggested, or if, as Weber would have it, Rawlsians
should turn to Dewey.
*Review of Metaphysics*
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