Relational Liberalism

Federica Liveriero is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Theory from LUISS University (Rome) in 2013. She has held visiting positions at Boston College, at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She works on normative theories of justification and public reason; democratic theory; and political epistemology. Recent publications have appeared in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Epistemology, The Journal of Ethics. She published a monograph in Italian, Decisioni pubbliche e disaccordo (LUISS University Press, 2017), and she co-edited Democracy and Diversity (Routledge, 2018).

• Introduction.- Political Legitimacy Under Epistemic Constraints.- An Epistemic Reading of the Ideal of Co-Authorship.- Justification Under Nonideal Circumstances: Reflective Agreement and Relational Liberalism.- The Ideal of Public Justification Revisited.- Compromises for a Pluralistic World.- A Case Study: Extending Marriage Rights to Same-Sex Couples.- Conclusion.