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Social Planning, Constitutionalism and Pluralistic Sequentialism

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Jan Srzednicki’s The Democratic Perspective: Political and Social Philosophy 2 examines the problem confronting social planners of inadequate knowledge. As he puts it, ’[w]e are faced... with the task of planning for sociopolitical betterment and development in [the] absence of the necessary background and detailed knowledge’.3 In turning to political philosophy, then, far from deserting his overriding concern with epistemological issues, he sees them as crucial.

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  1. I wish to thank Horst Imberger, Vanessa Mitchell, and David Tucker for their criticisms of earlier drafts of this paper. A debt of a very different kind is owed to Jan himself over many years as supervisor, colleague, and friend.

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Wood, D. (1993). Social Planning, Constitutionalism and Pluralistic Sequentialism. In: Poli, R. (eds) Consciousness, Knowledge, and Truth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2060-9_12

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