Why tolerate religion, again? : a reply to Michael McConnell /

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Author / Creator:Leiter, Brian, author.
Imprint:[Chicago, Illinois] : Law School, University of Chicago, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (17 pages)
Language:English
Series:Public law and legal theory working paper ; no. 580
Public law and legal theory working paper ; no. 580.
Subject:Religious tolerance.
Freedom of religion.
Freedom of religion.
Religious tolerance.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11000279
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Notes:"May 2016."
Title from online title page (viewed March 20, 2017).
Summary:"This essay discusses a lengthy review by Professor Michael McConnell of the Stanford Law School in the Yale Law Journal to my 2013 book WHY TOLERATE RELIGION? (Princeton University Press). I identify two important objections that Prof. McConnell raises, but also identify eight different mistakes or misunderstandings that mar other parts of the review. I conclude by taking Prof. McConnell to task for several rhetorical cheap shots that, together with the other errors, suggests that his essay was more a partisan brief than a scholarly evaluation of the arguments. Most surprisingly, the fact that Professor McConnell, in his lengthy review, never actually responds to my book's central thesis -- namely, that the inequality between religious and non-religious claims of conscience is not morally defensible -- suggests that there may really be no serious argument on the other side."