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23On Rawls: A Liberal Theory of Justice and JustificationWadsworth. 2001.This brief text assists students in understanding Rawls' philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series,, ON RAWLS is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher, better enabling students to engage in reading and to …Read more
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6Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative PoliticsRoutledge. 2004.This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need
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39John Dewey's Quest for Unity: the Journey of a Promethean Mystic – Richard M. Gale (review)Philosophical Quarterly 61 (245): 863-864. 2011.
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79In a recent article, Iris Marion Young raises several challenges to deliberative democracy on behalf of political activists. In this paper, the author defends a version of deliberative democracy against the activist challenges raised by Young and devises challenges to activism on behalf of the deliberative democrat.
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139Does Value Pluralism Entail Liberalism?Journal of Moral Philosophy 7 (3): 303-320. 2010.Isaiah Berlin repeatedly attempted to derive liberalism from value pluralism. It is generally agreed that Berlin 's arguments fail; however, neo-Berlinians have taken up the project of securing the entailment. This paper begins with an account of why the Berlinian project seems attractive to contemporary theorists. I then examine Berlin 's argument. With this background in place, I argue that recent attempts by William Galston and George Crowder to rescue the Berlinian project do not succeed.
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59Deliberative Democracy Defended: A Response To Posner’s Political RealismRes Publica 11 (2): 185-199. 2005.
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64Introduction: Pragmatism and deliberative politicsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (1): 1-8. 2004.
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111Does public ignorance defeat deliberative democracy? (review)Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 16 (4): 455-463. 2004.Richard Posner and Ilya Somin have recently posed forceful versions of a common objection to deliberative democracy, the Public Ignorance Objection. This objection holds that demonstrably high levels of public ignorance render deliberative democracy practically impossible. But the public‐ignorance data show that the public is ignorant in a way that does not necessarily defeat deliberative democracy. Posner and Somin have overestimated the force of the Public Ignorance Objection, so the question …Read more
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83In introduce the concept of a "folk epistemology" and argue that norms arising from our folk epistemic commitments provide a compelling social epistemic justification for democratic political norms.
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80Democracy and Moral ConflictCambridge University Press. 2009.Why democracy? Most often this question is met with an appeal to some decidedly moral value, such as equality, liberty, dignity or even peace. But in contemporary democratic societies, there is deep disagreement and conflict about the precise nature and relative worth of these values. And when democracy votes, some of those who lose will see the prevailing outcome as not merely disappointing, but morally intolerable. How should citizens react when confronted with a democratic result that they re…Read more
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241Liberty, community, and democracy: Sidney Hook's pragmatic deliberativismJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 286-304. 2001.
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119Deliberativist responses to activist challenges: A continuation of young’s dialecticPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (4): 423-444. 2005.In a recent article, Iris Marion Young raises several challenges to deliberative democracy on behalf of political activists. In this paper, the author defends a version of deliberative democracy against the activist challenges raised by Young and devises challenges to activism on behalf of the deliberative democrat. Key Words: activism • deliberative democracy • Discourse • Ideology • public sphere • I. M. Young
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145From pragmatism to perfectionism: Cheryl Misak's epistemic deliberativismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 387-406. 2007.In recent work, Cheryl Misak has developed a novel justification of deliberative democracy rooted in Peircean epistemology. In this article, the author expands Misak's arguments to show that not only does Peircean pragmatism provide a justification for deliberative democracy that is more compelling than the justifications offered by competing liberal and discursivist views, but also fixes a specific conception of deliberative politics that is perfectionist rather than neutralist. The article con…Read more
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11Engaging Political Philosophy: An IntroductionRoutledge. 2014.Engaging Political Philosophy introduces readers to the central problems of political philosophy. Presuming no prior work in the area, the book explores the fundamental philosophical questions regarding freedom, authority, justice, and democracy. More than a survey of the central figures and texts, Engaging Political Philosophy takes readers on a philosophical exploration of the core of the field, directly examining the arguments and concepts that drive the contemporary debates. Thus the fundame…Read more
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83Book reviews (review)No one wishing to possess a concise yet conceptually comprehensive account of the questions bedeviling liberalism—all topics are tracked with a fine bibliography—will be disappointed with Robert B. Talisse’s Democracy After Liberalism. While special attention is given to liberalism’s theoretical and practical relations with democracy and citizenship, widely documented troubles within historically democratic cultures motivate and contextualize the analysis. Since we need “a deliberative account o…Read more
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59Can Value Pluralists be Comprehensive Liberals? Galston's Liberal PluralismContemporary Political Theory 3 (2): 127-139. 2004.In this paper, the author engages William Galston's recent attempt to revive the Berlinian project of developing a comprehensive theory of liberalism from value pluralist premises. The author's argument maintains that, despite Galston's attempts, the value pluralist in fact has no resources with which to recommend a liberal political order over a variety of illiberal regimes, and that, further, Galston's own justificatory strategy is indistinguishable from the later Rawls's noncomprehensive, ‘po…Read more
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34Democracy and ignorance: Reply to FriedmanCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 18 (4): 453-466. 2006.Several distinct epistemic states may be properly characterized as states of ?ignorance.? It is not clear that the ?public ignorance? on which Jeffrey Friedman bases his critique of social democracy is objectionable, because it is not evident which of these epistemic states is at issue. Moreover, few extant theories of democracy defend it on the grounds that it produces good outcomes, rather than because its procedures are just. And even the subcategory of democratic theories that focus on epist…Read more
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8A pragmatist philosophy of democracy : communities of inquiryRoutledge. 2007.Contiene: Email and ethics -- Causation and laws of nature -- Internalism and epistemology -- Einstein, relativity, and absolute simultaneity -- Epistemology modalized -- Truth and speech acts -- Fiction, narrative, and knowledge -- A pragmatist philosophy of democracy.
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58Can Democracy Be a Way of Life? Deweyan Democracy and the Problem of PluralismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (1). 2003.
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24Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State, by Robert Audi (review)Mind 122 (487). 2013.
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3A Pragmatist Philosophy of DemocracyRoutledge. 2007.Pragmatism's ambiguous legacy -- Can democracy be a way of life? -- Peirce, inquiry, and politics -- Pluralism and the Peircean view -- Posner's pragmatic realism -- The case of Sidney Hook -- Epilogue : the eclipse narrative revisited.
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10Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (3): 624-625. 2002.Gérard Deldalle is among the world’s most important students of American philosophy, and one of the very best Peirce scholars writing today. Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs collects seventeen of Deledalle’s essays on the theory and application of Peirce’s semeiotic. Many of these essays appear for the first time in English, and span the author’s work over fifty years. The book is organized in four parts: “Semeiotic as Philosophy,” “Semeiotic as Semiotics,” “Comparative Semiotics,” and “C…Read more
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139Clarifying Cohen: A Response to Jubb and HallRes Publica 19 (4): 371-379. 2013.In this brief essay, we clarify Cohen’s ‘Facts and Principles’ argument, and then argue that the objections posed by two recent critiques of Cohen—Robert Jubb (Res Publica 15:337–353, 2009) and Edward Hall (Res Publica 19:173–181, 2013)—look especially vulnerable to the charge of being self-defeating. It may still be that Cohen’s view concerning facts and principles is false. Our aim here is merely to show that two recent attempts to demonstrate its falsity are unlikely to succeed
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25Abortion Activism and Civil Discourse: Reply to ShieldsCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 20 (1): 167-179. 2008.Jon Shields's finding—that certain evangelical pro‐life activist groups are more interested in deliberative discussions about abortion than are pro‐choice activists—is wrong on methodological, normative, and philosophical grounds. He generalizes about pro‐life civility from a small, trained sample group, and ignores possibly important variables that would explain pro‐choicers' incivility. Further, politeness is not necessarily a requirement of democratic deliberation—which entails not forcing on…Read more
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72Debate: Pragmatist Epistemology and Democratic Theory: A Reply to Eric MacGilvrayJournal of Political Philosophy 22 (3): 366-376. 2014.
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19Nagel on Public Education and Intelligent DesignJournal of Philosophical Research 35 209-219. 2010.In a recent article, Thomas Nagel argues against the court’s decision to strike down the Dover school district’s requirement that biology teachers in Dover public schools inform their students about Intelligent Design. Nagel contends that this ruling relies on questionable demarcation between science and nonscience and consequently misapplies the Establishment Clause of the constitution. Instead, he argues in favor of making room for an open discussion of these issues rather than an outright pro…Read more
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32Luck Libertarianism? A Critique of Tan’s Institutional ViewSouthwest Philosophy Review 31 (1): 187-196. 2015.
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Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Department of Political ScienceW. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |
Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
History of Western Philosophy |