Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Task before Us
The Present Dilemma
What Pragmatism Is (and Is Not)
Overview
Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Political Justification
The Tyranny of Minimalism
Does Justification Matter?
The Limits of Proceduralism
The Limits of Agonism
Pragmatic Justification
Beyond Minimalism
Prospectivism and the "Will to Believe"
Scope of the Problem
Belief and Will
Belief and Evidence
Belief and Context
Pragmatism and the Will to Believe
Narrative and Moral Reasoning
Narrative and Moral Experience
Narrative and Moral Ontology
Narrative and Evidence
Narrative and Doubt
Narrative and Public Discourse
Pragmatism and Democracy
Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence
Acquiescent Pragmatism
The Problem of Context
Experience as Experiment
Science and Democracy
Pragmatism and Egalitarianism
Against Deweyan Democracy
The Deweyan Revival
The Hegelian Deposit
Individuality and Community
The Problem with the Public
Dewey's Enduring Contribution
Political Liberalism
Political Liberalism and the Limits of the Political
Desiderata
Public Justifiability
Right and Reasonable
Right and Good
Public Reason and Reasonable Disagreement
Two Difficulties
Public Reason and Public Institutions
Embodying Public Reason
Disagreement, Consensus, and Respect
The Judicial Model
Insincerity Examined
The Federal Model
Is Injustice Justifiable?
The Fact of Reasonable Disagreement
The Pluralist Narrative
Is Pluralism Necessary?
Is Pluralism Permanent?
The Fallibilist Narrative
Fallibilism without Skepticism
Legitimacy without Neutrality
Conclusion: Liberalism after Minimalism
Index