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    Partisanship Beyond Civic Friendship
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 185-216. forthcoming.
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    This paper examines how the critique of abstractions operates in the work of Whitehead and in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. For Whitehead, the critique of abstractions and the recovery of concrete reality entails more than the mere recovery of what our abstractions prevent us from experiencing (as though it were just a matter of each individual having a more comprehensive experience). It also involves a responsibility towards those who are excluded by our abstractions. Deleuze and Guattari’s…Read more
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    Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community
    with André Rosenbaum de Avillez, Mark Fisher, and Christopher Long
    The Good Society 2 (24): 118-145. 2015.
    The emergence of new platforms for public communication, public deliberation, and public action presents new possibilities for forming, organizing, and mobilizing public bodies, which invite philosophical reflection concerning the standards we currently look to for coordinating public movements and for evaluating their effects. Developing a broad understanding of public philosophy, this article begins with the view of philosophy and intellectual freedom articulated in Kant's publicly oriented wr…Read more
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    Reasonable Agonism : Justification and Dissent in Liberal Democracies
    Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University. 2019.
    This dissertation develops a conception of reasonableness that can adequately respond to agonistic critiques of this concept. As an aspect of practical reason, reasonableness refers to the moral capacity of citizens to cooperate politically, especially in pluralistic societies. More specifically, the principles or rules of political association governing society ought to be acceptable to all reasonable members of that society. This relates, furthermore, to the idea of justification: the acceptab…Read more