CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTORY: EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICAL THEORY; PART I--PERSONAL JUSTIFICATION; PART II--PUBLIC JUSTIFICATION; PART III--POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION; APPENDIX: LIBERAL PRINCIPLES IN A WORLD OF STATES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
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