ROBERT B. TALISSE

ROBERT B. TALISSE
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science

Department:  Philosophy

Email: robert.talisse@vanderbilt.edu
Personal Homepage: http://rtalisse.googlepages.com/home

Office: Furman Hall 018
Phone: (615) 343-8671
Fax: (615) 343-7259

Current Research

  • Offprints of published work and other news can be found on Talisse's Personal Webpage
  • Work in progress and forthcoming papers can be found on Talisse's SSRN Author Page
  • Current CV
  • Current research is focused on democracy, pluralism, public justification, political legitimacy, public ignorance, fanaticism, and social epistemology. These themes are brought together in Talisse's new book, Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In this book, Talisse proposes a "folk epistemic" conception of democratic politics and a social epistemic analysis of moral conflict. In addition, Talisse has published Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Co-authored with Scott Aikin, Continuum 2008); A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge 2007); and Democracy After Liberalism (Routledge 2005). He is now working on a book about value pluralism and is co-authoring (with Scott Aikin) a book on atheism.
  • On August 10, 2005, Talisse appeared with Michael Lynch (U. Conn.) on the Chicago public radio show, Odyssey, for a discussion of The Value of Truth
  • Talisse appeared in September 2004 on the PBS political talk show, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg for a discussion of the poltical thought of John Rawls. Read the transcript.
  • Talisse was Research Fellow at The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University's Murphy Institute of Political Economy for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Current Positions

Selected Publications

 
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