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Enrico Zoffoli

Beyond Consensus

Series: Studies in Political Theory

Volume 4 2013

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The asymmetry between rightness claims and truth claims S. 137-140

„… precisely because it deliberately overlooks the fundamental asymmetry between truth-claims and rightness …” „… claims that I want to highlight. 2.6.3 The asymmetry between rightness claims and truth claims To …” „… affairs and “truth-claims” in general, while “practical rationality” deals with reasons for beliefs about …”

Validity claims S. 134-137

„… ), it is necessary to say more about Habermas’s distinction between “truth-claims” and “truthanalogous …” „… ). But validity claims can take mainly two forms: they can be either claims to truth or claims to …” „… rightness. By raising a truth-claim, the speaker advances an empirical claim concerning the objective world …”

Some important remarks S. 125-127

„… the plausibility of truth-claims that some participants may plausibly contest. Discourse becomes …” „… through which truth-claims are submitted to critical testing. The important point is that such a critical …” „… not create truth; rather, it helps us discover which prima facie controversial truth-claims deserve to …”

The basic (radical) argument S. 122-125

„… pragmatic function of testing the plausibility of truth-claims that some participants may plausibly contest …” „… an empirical inquiry through which truth-claims are submitted to critical testing. The important …” „… controversial truth-claims deserve to be regarded as true. When the objectivity of the external world is put in …”

Are private reasons necessarily defeated? S. 133-134

„… justification of rightness claims based on truth-tracking objective reasons. If this is the function of public …” „… definition unable to warrant truth-analogous rightness claims to an unrestricted “community of investigators …” „… distinction between “truth-claims” and “truthanalogous rightness claims”. 2.6.2 Validity claims From a …”

A discourse-theoretical approach to universalization S. 140-143

„… 140 The alleged analogy between truth-claims and rightness-claims seems therefore to overlook both …” „… as a bulk of truth-analogous rightness-claims. As a result, he sees public justification primarily as …” „… impartiality speaks in favor of a fundamental symmetry between truth-claims and rightnessclaims, the argument …”

Discourse theory and epistemic pluralism S. 143-144

„… justification of rightness claims based on truth-tracking objective reasons. If this is the function of public …” „… : subjective/non-freestanding reasons are defeated because they are unable to warrant truth-analogous rightness claims to an …” „… truth-analogous. Consequently, we should resist the claim that only provisionally objective reasons are properly …”

Rejecting some major arguments for consensus S. 144-146

„… justification of rightness claims based on truth-tracking objective reasons. If this is the function of public …” „… : subjective/non-freestanding reasons are defeated because they are unable to warrant truth-analogous rightness claims to an …” „… truth-analogous. Consequently, we should resist the claim that only provisionally objective reasons are properly …”

The basic argument S. 106-110

„… 106 metaphysical idea of an antecedently given, transcendent realm of moral truths. In sum …” „… conditions of reasonable pluralism, people have different conceptions of the “objective truth”. As Hobbes …” „… said, people naturally aim at “right reason” – they insist that their reasoning reveals the truth, thus …”

Back to post-metaphysical rationality S. 154-156

„… agents should be concerned with the discursive redemption of truth-analogous rightness claims. Surely if …” „… truth-analogous claim that L is objectively worse than no law at all. All Andy would point out by invoking R* is …” „… her claim. The onus of justification, as Stanley Benn reminds us, is always on the would-be interferer …”

Summary S. 158-160

„… (on the naïve view of scientific inquiry) truth-claims can be redeemed only by objective …” „… , truth-seeking reasons, rightness claims are not truthanalogous and can therefore be justified by “overlapping …” „… strength-based arguments claim) or by the very fact that they are private (as radical strength-based arguments …”

Rebutted freestanding reasons are not shareable S. 81-84

„… to L, in case C) he grants that R supports L and yet claims that he has a stronger independent reason …” „… of Reasons might claim that in case C) Andy has a reason R to support L, since R is not undermined by …” „… important. Reasons for belief are standardly truth-centered, in the sense that they aim to justify true …”

Rejecting the top-down argument for consensus S. 120-122

„… her creed). Again, though, (a) need not be taken as an unrevisable dogmatic truth. More simply, we can …” „… ) an epistemic thesis and should not be confused with the metaphysical claim that objectively sound …” „… reasons” does not entail “relativism of truth”.219 Rather, the point is that people may be epistemically …”

The role of religious reasons S. 56-61

„… system,97 while Weithman claims that religious citizens cannot be expected to perceive any “pull” from …” „… integrity.100 Stephen Macedo claims that the “integrity objection” smacks of childish whining: “[C]itizens …” „… religious or metaphysical claims, I can only say ‘grow up!”.101 However, many consensus theorists are much …”

Conclusion S. 233-240

„… themselves be reciprocally and generally justifiable”.401 In a similar vein, Charles Larmore claims that we …” „… substantiate the claim that private reasons are “bad reasons”. In this case, it would make little sense to …” „… claim that freestanding reasons might be neither conclusive nor shareable (§1.6.1). Specifically, one …”

Overview of the argument S. 99-100

„… redemption of truth-claims and the public justification of rightness-claims. In defending this thesis, I …” „… claim that although private reasons are not defeated by the fact that they are private, they are always …” „… , because Andy would merely claim that R is as private as R* – it is not a reason he can share as …”

Rawls on the overlapping consensus S. 61-63

„… the notion of “truth” is somewhat misleading, but his essential claim is clear enough. What Rawls says …” „… other philosophical truths. The first form of justification shows that we can endorse the liberal …”

Procedures of abstraction S. 76-79

„… claims raised in communicative contexts. Validity claims such as “N is right” or “p is true” are …” „… universal formal features of communication as such. Second, and more importantly, they do not claim validity …” „… , they claim universal validity. With her utterance the speaker transcends the specific communicative …”

Four strength-based arguments for consensus S. 103-106

„… ” as a conceptual error. One cannot consistently claim both that a) R* is a reason and that b) R* is …” „… may be shared with others”.182 Note that here Korsgaard does not simply claim that reasons are by …” „… , Korsgaard’s claim is that only socially recognized norms provide reasons because they are shareable. To use …”

The scope of private defeaters S. 156-158

„… discourse-theoretical argument for consensus fail for the same reason: they presuppose a truth …” „… behind the claim that private reasons always defeat private reasons in every belief system, as moderate …” „… strength-based arguments claim) or by the very fact that they are private (as radical strength-based arguments …”

Full publicity as a justificatory device S. 191-194

„… , this is an incredibly demanding claim. Judges, congressmen and other public officials can be required …” „… values and beliefs. But this seems a questionable claim. Observe, first, that private reasons are a …” „… is, to be sure, a highly conjectural claim; but it is not more conjectural than Macedo’s.346 3.4.3 …”

Intelligibility and relevance S. 166-169

„… insists that RB justifies X to Bea. So in order to sincerely make this sort of claim, Andy must believe …” „… to the idea of truth”.302 But since reasoners typically start with different sets of beliefs and …” „… , perfectionists (both religious and secular) typically deny that people who fail to grasp the evident truth about …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-10

„… defeated? 133 2.6.2 Validity claims 134 2.6.3 The asymmetry between rightness claims and truth claims 137 …”

The role of moral epistemology S. 176-179

„… doctrines. Quong thus claims that “[p]olitical liberalism cannot affirm or deny the truth of Gaus’s …” „… they could be shared by others. He claims, for example, that public reason asks us to “conduct our …” „… claim, can and should obviously master some basic epistemic tools. As Rawls stresses, reasonable people …”

Why the sincerity requirement undermines convergence S. 169-173

„… religious and secular) typically deny that people who fail to grasp the evident truth about human …” „… the reasonable, then we have little reason to worry about Quong’s empirical claim that many citizens …” „… sincerity is appropriateness-based. The case for consensus is independent of any claim about the epistemic …”

b Justificatory liberalism S. 13-20

„… coercive principle as fair simply is to claim that it is publicly justifiable to others. On the other hand …” „… public justification. Perfectionist liberals typically claim that to the extent that the state prevents …” „… although there is some truth to this view, justificatory liberalism differs from Berlin’s model in at least …”

Two kinds of defeaters S. 66-69

„… claim that justificatory reasons must be conclusive. To hone in on this crucial matter, it is useful to …” „… truth of its conclusion, to which the rational agent affirming that argument is committed. In focusing …” „… non-probabilistic claims) based on probabilistic grounds” as a defeater which overrules the reason for believing …”

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Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, James Maffie, Geeta Ramana - Confluence

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Confluence

2015

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Survey Article S. 225-239

„… toexercise its sovereignty. The power of tradition, he claims, is not in itsform but in its meaning and …” „… thetrue power of it. »Truth,« he writes, »is in the ever changing experi-ences of the community. For the …” „… transformation in an Indigen-ous context) rather than on truth or proof.7. Native American philosophy focuses on …”

Introducing Confluence: A Thematic Essay S. 7-64

„… representation of Indian philosophical traditions.claims to a rational and/or empirical test, and being wary of …” „… force one to relativize the claims made by one’s own tradi-tion, thus opening up the possibility that …” „… Anglo-European tradition itself is dislodged from the loftypeak it claims for itself.Mall’s hermeneutic technique …”

Symposium: Does the Concept of »Truth« Have Value in the Pursuit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy? S. 149-158

„… accompanied by thedogmatism that all too frequently attends claims to having found theTRUTH – objectively, no …” „… Symposium:Does the Concept of »Truth«Have Value in the Pursuit ofCross-Cultural …” „… Philosophy?AbstractThe symposium »Does the Concept of ›Truth‹ Have Value in the Pur-suit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy …”

Responses S. 159-212

„… the demography of philoso-phers) have made a difference to the truth claims of philosophy. Shefollows …” „… political inquiry if we truly want to understand not onlytruth-effects [the effects of truth claims on human …” „… truth,he claims, presupposes the prior notion of truth as unconcealment andits concomitant concealment, the …”

Articles S. 65-148

„… better to behesitant in advancing one’s own claim to truth. Very much in the spiritof an intercultural …” „… deconstructive of absolu-tist truth-claims of particular standpoints (naya).Anekantavada (many-sidedness or …” „… philosophers claim a privileged position for acomprehensive master principle called the »transcendental …”

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Philosophisches Jahrbuch

Browse Volumes: Philosophisches Jahrbuch

PhJb Volume 123 (2016) Issue 2 ISSN Online: 2942-3325

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Uwe Meixner Critical Comments on Nicholas Rescher’s »Why Is There Anything at All? Leibnizian Ruminations on Ultimate Questions« S. 531-542

„… reason: Rescher claims that numbersnecessarily exist, and that (so-called) facts – i. e., states of …” „… affairs1 – necessarilyexist. By these claims, he means that every number necessarily exists, that every …” „… . e., makes true or at leastplausible) all the claims he makes by way of using that predicate. Note …”

Yannic Kappes, Benjamin Schnieder Anything at All. The Deepest and the Shallowest Question S. 543-565

„… all?’ is a why-question.5 Such a question presupposesthe truth of a certain proposition and asks for a …” „… reason or ground of its truth; let uscall that proposition the topic of the question. The topic of the …” „… things/entities. That is to say, the question asks for a reason of an existential truth.Just as because-sentences …”

Henning Tegtmeyer Optimalism and Theism. A Comment on Nicholas Rescher S. 566-574

„… invested in order to spell out the overall claim that this contingent world existsbecause it is the best …” „… . Heylen (2015). The author kindly permitted me access to his manu-script. Eventually, however, his claim …” „… to say that what wewant is a necessity claim of some kind. In the field of a posteriori necessity …”

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Nicholas Rescher, Thomas Buchheim - Why Is There Anything at All?

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Why Is There Anything at All?

2019

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Diskussionsbeiträge S. 25-200

Initiativer Beitrag S. 9-24

„… not too difficult to see. For consider the followingtwo claims:• If the existence of every sentence of …” „… claims are clearly false as they stand. On the other hand, contrastthese two with the following cognate …” „… forq”, where the variables p and q range over factual claims.• E!x for “x exists”, where the variable x …”

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Michael Medzech, Holger Zaborowski - Heidegger und das Politische

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Heidegger und das Politische

Series: Heidegger-Jahrbuch

Volume 13 2022

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Matthew Sharpe Speaking of Heidegger’s Silence. Critical Responses to Knowles’s Heidegger S. 77-92

„… proffers critical reflec-tions on the book’s key claims: the first concerning Knowles’s reading of …” „… politics.1. Heidegger as thinker and performer of silenceThe framing claim of Knowles’s book is that the …” „… politics to “the man” as opposed to thethinker, as well as of now-unsustainable claims that Heidegger was a …”

Tracy B. Strong Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt. Why Become a Party Member? S. 93-118

„… one can do no other than acknowledge its claims.To speak of a political theology thus means to speak …” „… Heidegger and Schmitt as hu-man beings. Rather the case seems to be what Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe pro-claims …” „… him will be notated SZ.2 Thomas Sheehan, “‘Everyone Has to Tell the Truth’. Heidegger and the Jews …”

Alexander S. Duff The Language of Politics in Being and Time S. 45-63

„… inscrutablyvague, piling abstractions on abstraction,6 but it is nonetheless true that theroots of these claims in …” „… politics,see Ireland’s inquiry into the work on Hölderlin: Julia Ireland, “Naming Physis and the ‘InnerTruth of …” „… Greek public life. Heidegger claims thatthe Greeks had no word for language, only the term logos or …”

Achim Oberst Heidegger’s Onto-Politics. A European Perspective from America, Seen in the Light of the Black Notebooks S. 133-150

„… presence of being inanything that falls into the scope of his attention. If the truth of God asserts …” „… itsrelevance to all aspects of human life, the same must be said about the workingpresence of the truth of …” „… funda-mental truths defy the coercive force of conquest. Unapparent (ἀφανής), theycome about in a purely …”

Adam Knowles Tracing Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities. Desolation and Silence S. 64-76

„… expresses, he is likely to disavow at another point.Any claim he makes, he is likely to undermine at another …” „… , hrsg. von Hartmut Tietjen (GA 36/37), Frankfurt amMain 2001, 107; Being and Truth, translated by …”

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