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Simone Chambers is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is writing a book, Public Reason and Deliberation, which investigates the role of citizen deliberation in contemporary democratic theory. Her primary areas of scholarship include political philosophy, ethics, democratic theory and constitutional theory. She is the author of Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse (1996) and the co-editor of Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media (2000) and Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society (2001) as well as many journal articles.
What distinguishes Habermas from Rawls on religion in the public sphere is not Habermas’s slightly amended view of public reason, but his willingness to entertain the idea that religion has a positive and substantive role to play in public debate.
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