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58Liberalism, Pluralism, and Political JustificationThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (2): 57-72. 2005.In popular parlance the term "liberalism" denotes a collection of welfarist and progressive social policies, but I am here concerned with liberalism as the theoretical framework within which familiar debates over distributive justice and the scope of state power typically are conducted. To be sure, liberalism in this sense is a complex doctrine, but its core has been well captured by Martha Nussbaum
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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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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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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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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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7Aristotle's Politics Today (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2007._Examines the implications of Aristotle’s political thought for contemporary political theory._
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75A farewell to Deweyan democracy: Towards a new pragmatist politicsPolitical Studies 59 (3): 509-526. 2011.The revival of pragmatism has brought renewed enthusiasm for John Dewey's conception of democracy. Drawing upon Rawlsian concerns regarding the fact of reasonable pluralism, the author argues that Deweyan democracy is unworthy of resurrection. A modified version of Deweyan democracy recently proposed by Elizabeth Anderson is then taken up and also found to be lacking. Then the author proposes a model of democracy that draws upon Peirce's social epistemology. The result is a non-Deweyan but nonet…Read more
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31American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (edited book)Routledge. 2004.The _Encyclopedia of American Philosophy_ provides coverage of the major figures, concepts, historical periods and traditions in American philosophical thought. Containing over 600 entries written by scholars who are experts in the field, this _Encyclopedia_ is the first of its kind. It is a scholarly reference work that is accessible to the ordinary reader by explaining complex ideas in simple terms and providing ample cross-references to facilitate further study. The _Encyclopedia of American …Read more
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85Belief and the Error TheoryEthical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (4): 849-856. 2016.A new kind of debate about the normative error theory has emerged. Whereas longstanding debates have fixed on the error theory’s plausibility, this new debate concerns the theory’s believability. Bart Streumer is the chief proponent of the error theory’s unbelievability. In this brief essay, we argue that Streumer’s argument prevails against extant critiques, and then press a criticism of our own.
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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 |