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For Christman, as for many others who adopt procedural conceptions, autonomous agents must be both reflectively competent and authentic.
Procedural conceptions have been prominent in the standard literature on autonomy from the 1970s to the present day (e.g., Dworkin 1970; Frankfurt 1988; Christman 2009).
The concept of content-neutrality has been an extremely important tool in the feminist rehabilitation of autonomy and procedural conceptions are attractive to feminists in large part due to their content-neutrality.
Indeed, Benson suggests that coherence is a feature common to procedural conceptions that are "identity-based", namely, those claiming that preferences and actions are "genuinely my own because they are appropriately related to my identity" (Benson 2005a, 102 3).
Procedural conceptions characterize autonomous agents—agents whose preferences and desires are genuinely their own as those who critically reflect in the appropriate way to evaluate their preferences, motives, and desires.
The procedural conceptions defended by Friedman and Meyers exemplify an alternative approach in which autonomy is not tied to the structural features of an occurrent mental state but rather is achieved when the agent undergoes a historical process of critical reflection.
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When people clamor for the preservation or extension of the rule of law, are they advocating a substantive conception of the rule of law respecting private property and promoting liberty, a formal conception emphasizing an "inner morality of law, " or a procedural conception stressing the right to be heard by an impartial tribunal and to make arguments about what the law is?
He sometimes refers to it as a "purely" procedural conception of legitimacy (e.g. Estlund 2008: 108, 116).
One philosophical purpose of such a procedural conception of rationality is to refute value skeptics, who reduce politics to what Weber called the struggle between "gods and demons" (Weber 1949).
This section outlines two versions of procedural and content-neutral conceptions that are well-known in the feminist literature: those of Marilyn Friedman and Diana Tietjens Meyers.
In 2006, it upheld most of the deeply controversial mid-decade redistricting in Texas masterminded by former House Majority Leader Tom Delay in League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) v. Perry, inviting free-for-all legislative self-entrenchment violating even the most minimal conceptions of procedural democracy.
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