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

• 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:
• "Précis of A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy," contribution to a symposium issue of Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society on my A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, 45.1(2009): 45-49
• "Replies to My Critics," contribution to a symposium issue of Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society on my A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy,45.1(2009) 90-108
• "Folk Epistemology and the Justification of Democracy," in Does Truth Matter?, Ronald Tinnevelt and Raf Geenens, eds., Springer, 2009
• "Pragmatism and the Cold War," in the Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, Cheryl Misak (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2009
• "Modus Tonens," with Scott Aikin, Argumentation 22.4(2008): 521-529
• "Abortion Activism and Civil Discourse," with Steven Maloney, Critical Review 20.1-2(2008): 167-179, with a response by Jon Shields, "Abortion and Deliberation".
• "Towards A Social Epistemic Comprehensive Liberalism," Episteme 5.1(2008): 106-128
• "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.