John Rawls Debating the Major Questions

Jon Mandle is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Albany. He has published widely on political philosophy and John Rawls in particular, including co-editing The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (with David Reidy, Cambridge 2015), and the Blackwell Companion to Rawls (with David Reidy, Blackwell 2014), as well as authoring three monographs: Rawls a Theory of Justice: An Introduction (Cambridge 2009), Global Justice (Polity 2006) and What's Left of Liberalism?: An Interpretation and Defense of Justice as Fairness (Lexington Books 2000).

Sarah Roberts-Cady is a Professor of Philosophy at Fort Lewis College. Her research on ethics and political philosophy has been featured in Journal of Social Philosophy, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Philosophy Today, and Politics and the Life Sciences.

An Introduction to Rawls on Justice
Jon Mandle and Sarah Roberts-Cady

Part I: Public Reason
Introduction to Public Reason

Chapter 1: Public Political Reason: Still Not Wide Enough
David Reidy

Chapter 2: Just Wide Enough: Reidy on Public Reason
James Boettcher

Part II: Ideal and Nonideal Theory
Introduction to Ideal and Nonideal Theory

Chapter 3: The "Focusing Illusion" of Rawlsian Ideal Theory
Colin Farrelly

Chapter 4: The Value of Ideal Theory
Matthew Adams


Part III: The Libertarian Critique
Introduction to the Libertarian Critique

Chapter 5: Rawls's Underestimation of the Importance of Economic Agency and Economic Rights
Jeppe Von Platz

Chapter 6: Rawls on Economic Liberty and the Choice of "Systems of Social Co-Operation"
Alan Thomas


Part IV: Luck Egalitarianism
Introduction to Luck Egalitarianism

Chapter 7: Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Chapter 8: The Point of Justice: On the Paradigmatic Incompatibility between Rawlsian "Justice as Fairness" and Luck Egalitarianism
Rainer Forst

Part V: The Capability Critique
Introduction to the Capability Critique

Chapter 9: Sen's Capability Critique
Chris Lowry

Chapter 10: Spectres of Democracy: Detouring the Limitations of Rawls and the Capabilities Approach
Tony Fitzpatrick

Part VI: The Dependency Critique
Introduction to the Dependency Critique

Chapter 11: The Dependency Critique of Rawlsian Equality
Eva Kittay

Chapter 12: A Feminist Liberal Response to the Dependency Critique
Amy Baehr

Part VII: Rawls and feminism
Introduction to Rawls and Feminism

Chapter 13: The Indeterminacy of Rawls's Principles for Gender Justice
M. Victoria Costa

Chapter 14: A Feminist Defense of Political Liberalism
Christie Hartley and Lori Watson

Part VIII: Rawls and Nonhuman Animals
Introduction to Rawls and Nonhuman Animals

Chapter 15: Extending Rawlsian Justice to Nonhuman Animals
Sarah Roberts-Cady

Chapter 16: Rawls and Animals: A Defense
Patrick Taylor Smith

Part IX: International Economic Justice
Introduction to International Economic Justice

Chapter 17: Rawls on Global Economic Justice: A Critical Examination
Rekha Nath

Chapter 18: Rawls's Reasoning about International Economic Justice: A Defense
Gillian Brock


Part X: International Justice and Toleration
Introduction to International Justice and Toleration

Chapter 19: Right-Wing Populism and Non-Coercive Injustice: On the Limits of the Law of Peoples
Michael Blake

Chapter 20: Tolerating Decent Societies: A Defense of the Law of Peoples
Jon Mandle