"`Eric Thomas Weber's comparative study identifies a deep Kantian tension between constructivism and representationalism in Rawls. His well informed, very clear and persuasive critique of Rawls highlights the many resources of Dewey's constructivism and constructivist epistemolo…
In Rawls, Dewey and Constructivism, Eric Weber examines and critiques John Rawls' epistemology and the unresolved tension - inherited from Kant - between Representationalism and Constructivism in Rawls' work. Weber argues that, despite Rawls' claims to be a constructivist, his u…
This study of the public goods dilemma explains how the present system of compulsory taxation helps to breed the parasitic "free riding" it is meant to suppress. The author argues that in the absence of taxation, many public goods would be provided by spontaneous group co-operat…