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Pragmatist reflective equilibrium
Rawls’ notion of reflective equilibrium has a hybrid character. It is embedded in the pragmatist tradition, but also includes various Kantian and...
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Probabilifying reflective equilibrium
This paper aims to flesh out the celebrated notion of reflective equilibrium within a probabilistic framework for epistemic rationality. On the...
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Does reflective equilibrium help us converge?
I address the worry that reflective equilibrium is too weak as an account of justification because it fails to let differing views converge. I take...
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When Should Popular Views be Included in a Reflective Equilibrium?
It has become increasingly common to conduct research on popular views on ethical questions. In this paper, we discuss when and to what extent...
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Overlap** consensus in pluralist societies: simulating Rawlsian full reflective equilibrium
The fact of reasonable pluralism in liberal democracies threatens the stability of such societies. John Rawls proposed a solution to this problem:...
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Defining the method of reflective equilibrium
The method of reflective equilibrium (MRE) is a method of justification popularized by John Rawls and further developed by Norman Daniels, Michael...
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Reflective equilibrium in logic
Among the areas of knowledge that the method of reflective equilibrium (RE) has been applied to is that of logical validity. According to RE in...
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Precedent and rest stop convergence in reflective equilibrium
The method of reflective equilibrium is typically characterized as a process of two kinds of adjustments: hold fixed one’s current set of...
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Can Social Reflective Equilibrium Delineate Cornell Realist Epistemology?
Cornell realism (CR), a prominent meta-ethical position that has emerged since the last decades of the twentieth century, proposes a non-reductionist...
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Applications of the Wide Reflective Equilibrium
The wide reflective equilibrium (WRE) is considered the most important method of ethical justification and is intensively discussed in the scientific...
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Is there a defensible conception of reflective equilibrium?
The goal of this paper is to re-assess reflective equilibrium (“RE”). We ask whether there is a conception of RE that can be defended against the...
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Reflective equilibrium in practice and model selection: a methodological proposal from a survey experiment on the theories of distributive justice
In political philosophy, reflective equilibrium is a standard method used to systematically reconcile intuitive judgments with theoretical...
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Applying Reflective Equilibrium Towards the Justification of a Precautionary Principle
This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and...
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Theoretical Foundations of Reflective Equilibrium
This chapter describes the theoretical foundations of the conception of reflective equilibrium that I adopt for the purpose of this book. According...
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Unifying ‘the’ Precautionary Principle? Justification and Reflective Equilibrium
The precautionary principle (PP) is an influential principle for making decisions when facing uncertain, but potentially severe, harm. However, there...
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The playing field of empirical facts: on the interrelations between moral and empirical beliefs in reflective equilibrium
What exactly is the role of empirical beliefs in moral reflective equilibrium (RE)? And if they have a part to play, can changes in our empirical...
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Turning the trolley with reflective equilibrium
Reflective equilibrium (RE)—the idea that we have to justify our judgments and principles through a process of mutual adjustment—is taken to be a...
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Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach
Social scientists, political scientists and philosophers debate key concepts such as democracy, power and autonomy . Contested concepts like these...
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Learning to Live with a Circle: Reflective Equilibrium and the Received View of the Scientific Realism Debate
The Scientific Realism Debate (SRD) has been accused of going around in circles without reaching a consensus, so that several scholars have advocated...