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Justificatory liberalism

by Gerald F. Gaus

Social contractJustification (Theory of knowledge)Liberalism

Drawing on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, this treatise develops a theory of personally justified belief. Building on this, it then advances an account of public justification that is more normative and less "populist" than the views of political liberals.

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