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18Moral affordances and the demands of fittingnessPhilosophical Psychology. forthcoming.Some situations appear to make moral demands on us – they call for a certain response. How can we account for such paradigmatic moral experiences? And what normative properties or relations are involved? This paper argues that we can account for such moral experiences in terms of moral affordances, where moral affordances are opportunities for fitting action. The paper demonstrates that the concept of affordances helps to generate new insight in moral inquiry, especially in relation to the moral…Read more
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18Talisse, Robert B. Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other SideEthics 133 (4): 645-649. 2023.
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14The Epistemology of Deliberative DemocracyIn Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.A good part of the early literature on deliberative democracy has focused on moral arguments for or against deliberative democracy. These arguments have typically been divided into instrumental and non‐instrumental arguments. More recently, there has been an epistemic turn in the literature on deliberative democracy. The main question under debate is no longer whether we have moral reasons to make our political decisions in deliberative democratic fashion, but whether or not we have epistemic re…Read more
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1Rational fools, rational commitmentsIn Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2007.
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A human right to democracy?In Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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Introduction to the Symposium on Rationality and Commitment (vol 21, pg 1, 2005)Economics and Philosophy 21 (2). 2005.
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The epistemic circumstances of democracyIn Michael Brady & Miranda Fricker (eds.), The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.
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Health Equity and Social JusticeIn Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter & Amartya Sen (eds.), Public Health, Ethics, and Equity, Oxford University Press. pp. 93-106. 2006.
Areas of Specialization
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Government and Democracy |
Practical Reason |
Meta-Ethics |
Epistemology |
Social Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Epistemology |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |