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 a recently-completed book titled Democracy and Moral Conflict, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. In this book, Talisse proposes a "folk epistemic" conception of democratic politics and a social epistemic analysis of moral conflict. In addition, Talisse has just completed a co-authored (with Scott Aikin) book on pragmatism. He is now beginning work on a book about value pluralism.
• Talisse's book, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, was published in 2007 by Routledge. In this book, Talisse brings a series of pragmatic arguments against Deweyan democracy and then proposes an anti-Deweyan but nonetheless pragmatist conception of democracy that draws from Peircean-epistemic sources. The result is a new pragmatist conception of democracy. Reviews are forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, and elsewhere.
• Talisse's Democracy After Liberalism was published with Routledge in 2005. Read a precis. Read the first chapter. Democracy After Liberalism is now available as an E-book here. Here is a press release from Newswise. Here is a review from New Politics. Here is a review from Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Here is a review from The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Here is a review from Metaphilosophy.
• 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

• Talisse is editor of the journal Public Affairs Quarterly.

Selected Publications

• Please see my Personal Webpage for a full list of publications. Here are a few representative and recent articles:
• "Kitcher on the Ethics of Inquiry," with Scott Aikin, Journal of Social Philosophy, 38.4(2007): 654-665, with a response by Philip Kitcher, "Reply to Talisse and Aikin"
• "From Pragmatism to Perfectionism," Philosophy & Social Criticism, 33.3 (2007): 387-406
• " Social Epistemology and the Politics of Omission," Episteme, 2.II (2006): 107-118
• "Liberalism, Pluralism, and Political Justification," Harvard Review of Philosophy , XIII.2 (2005): 57-72
• "Deliberativist Responses to Activist Challenges," Philosophy & Social Criticism, 31.4 (2005): 423-444
• "Does Public Ignorance Defeat Deliberative Democracy? ," Critical Review, 16.4 (2005): 455-463.
• "Can Democracy Be a Way of Life?," Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, XXXIX.1 (2003): 1-21.