I’ve been encouraged by a fellow reader of this blog to post an announcement about my two books that have come out in the last year.
The first is called Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism (2010), and was reviewed positively on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews here. You can find the book on Amazon here: US, UK, CA.
From the publisher: 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 unexplored Kantian influences cause several problems. In particular, Weber criticises Rawls’ failure to explain the origins of conceptions of justice, his understanding of “persons” and his revival of Social Contract Theory. Drawing on the work of John Dewey to resolve these problems, the book argues for a rigorously constructivist approach to the concept of justice and explores the practical implications of such an approach for Education.
From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: ”Weber’s excellent book raises a constructivist challenge against Rawls’s constructivism… In Rawls’s writings, the reference to Kantian constructivism is so vague as to be essentially meaningless. That is one of the implications of this very useful book.”
The second book is called Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy: On Experimentalism in Ethics and was released in July of 2011. It is available on Amazon here: US, UK, CA.
From the publisher: Informed by the pragmatism of John Dewey, this book argues the practical benefits for public policy of a rigorous experimentalist approach to applying moral theory.
Initial reviews from the back of the book can be read on the US Amazon page for the book or on the publisher’s Web site here.
If you’re interested in reviewing one of these books, you can contact me by email at etweber@olemiss.edu. Also, you can visit my Web site at http://ericthomasweber.org, where I post info on my academic work as well as materials from public engagement efforts.
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