November 07, 2003

Rawls and the Law at Fordham

Posted by Micah

Larry Solum has everything you might want to know about the conference being held at Fordham, starting here. Solum’s converage includes a nice introduction to the basic terms of the Rawls literature. Wish I could be at the conference myself. Maybe Fordham is planning a symposium publication? It’d be nice to read what many of the panelists have to say.

UPDATE: Solum is giving terrific coverage of the conference. Go here and scroll up.

UPDATE II: Solum has completed his remarkable coverage of the Rawls conference. Weighing in at more than twelve thousand words in two days, I think it’s the most impressive blogging performance I’ve seen since the early war coverage. And for those of us who couldn’t be at the conference, we couldn’t have asked for a better, or more knowledgeable, correspondent. Kudos, and many thanks, to Solum.

Posted on November 7, 2003 04:30 PM UTC
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I’ve just finished the last post in the series. There are twelve in total. THe series started on November 7 and continues through November 8. You can follow Micah’s link and scroll up.

Posted by Lawrence Solum · November 8, 2003 09:17 PM

solum is the man.

can someone explain to me in more detail what “brackets truth” means in the 11th post? i can guess at it, but the context isn’t as helpful as i’d like

Posted by Shai · November 10, 2003 09:37 AM

There is a controversy in metaethics as to whether moral propositions (and thus the propositions of Rawls’s theory) can be true or false. Rawls wants to avoid this controversy in metaethics, and so he brackets the “truth-status” of his claims. Email me if you would like a more detailed answer to this question.

Posted by Lawrence Solum · November 12, 2003 03:25 AM
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