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SUBJECTIVITY, JUDGMENT, AND THE BASING RELATIONSHIP
Author(s) -
DAVIS JOHN K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01327.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , subjectivity , constitutionality , epistemology , ideology , sociology , social psychology , psychology , law , philosophy , political science , politics , supreme court , computer science , library science
Moral and legal judgments sometimes depend on personal traits in this sense: the subject offers good reasons for her judgment, but if she had a different social or ideological background, her judgment would be different. If you would judge the constitutionality of restrictions on abortion differently if you were not a secular liberal, is your judgment really based on the arguments you find convincing, or do you find them so only because you are a secular liberal? I argue that a judgment can be based on the considerations the subject claims as justification even when it depends on personal traits.