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christopher mcmahon is Professor of Philosophy at the

University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include

Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning (2001).

This book examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree

about the requirements of political morality. Christopher McMahon

argues that there will be a “zone of reasonable disagreement” surrounding

most questions of political morality. Moral notions of right

and wrong evolve over time as new zones of reasonable disagreement

emerge out of old ones; thus political morality is both different in

different societies with varying histories, and different now from what

it was in the past. McMahon explores the phenomenon of reasonable

disagreement in detail and traces its implications for the possibility of

making moral judgments about other polities, past or present. His

study sheds light on an important and often overlooked aspect of

political life, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers in moral

and political philosophy and in political theory.