While many books cover philosophy or politics, this text draws all debates together for undergraduates. Public reason has leapt to the forefront in political philosophy and political theory as one of the liveliest and most interesting topics in the curriculum and this text covers the key topics.
More important, he develops and defends his own distinctive epistemic view throughout the volume. Notably, he argues for an account of justification that combines both internalist and externalist features.
Although public justification is employed in the work of theorists such as John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel, and others, it has received little attention on its own as a philosophical concept.