• News, etc.
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  • Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge University Press, October 2009) can now be pre-ordered on Amazon. Here's some advance praise for the book:

  • Talisse sees profound moral and religious conflict in our political life that threatens democracy, and makes impossible effective defenses by appeal to shared values. He advances an important alternative: our common commitment to sound beliefs should lead us all to endorse democratic politics. This is a fine work of public philosophy in the tradition of J. S. Mill and John Dewey.
    --Gerald Gaus, James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona

    Robert Talisse has provided us with a timely, original, and unapologetic defense of constitutional democracy. It is, he says, the only form of government suited to persons who are already committed in their everyday lives to giving reasons for their beliefs. Artfully blending careful philosophical analysis with contemporary illustrations and accessible prose, Democracy and Moral Conflict makes an authentically democratic and powerfully reasoned case for democracy.  
     --John C. P. Goldberg, Professor of Law, Harvard University

    Robert Talisse argues that democracy comes closer than any other political system to instantiating the norms of the folk epistemology which all citizens share. Insofar as we care about the truth, we have a reason to remain committed to democracy, even when the stakes are highest. An engaging read, this book makes an important contribution to the growing discussion of democracy's epistemic virtues. 
    --David A. Reidy, Lindsay Young Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee 
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  • A symposium issue of the journal Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society devoted to my book A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy has just been published.  The issue features seven critical papers plus my response.  Critics are Thom Brooks, Matthew Festenstein, Colin Koopman, Rosa Mayorga, Cillian McBride, Melvin Rogers, Mark Van Hollebeke. Read a précis  of the book here.
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  • A review of A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy has just appeared in Political Theory. Here's another review from Social Theory & Practice. 

  • A review of Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Books), which I wrote with Scott Aikin, has just appeared in Human Affairs.  Here's a review from Metapsychology Reviews.
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  • A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven Cahn (Lexington), which I edited with Maureen Eckert,  is now available from Amazon.
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  • I am the editor of the journal Public Affairs Quarterly.
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  • Selected Publications

  •  I. Authored Books
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  • Democracy and Moral Conflict, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (2009)

  • Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed, with Scott Aikin, Continuum, 2008 [Reviews: (1)  (2)]
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  • A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, Routledge, 2007 (softcover, 2008) [Reviews: (1)  (2), (3)]

  • Democracy After Liberalism, Routledge, 2005 [Reviews: (1) (2) (3) (4)]


  • II. Edited Books

  • The Pragmatic Turn (edited with Scott Aikin), Princeton University Press, forthcoming (2010)

  • Political Problems (edited with Steven Cahn), Prentice Hall, forthcoming (2010)

  • A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven Cahn (edited with Maureen Eckert), Lexington, 2009
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  •  American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (edited with John Lachs), Routledge, 2008
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  • Aristotle's Politics Today (edited with Lenn Goodman), SUNY Press, 2007 (softcover, 2008) [Review]
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  • Essays in Experimental Logic (edited with D. Micah Hester), Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
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  • Dewey's Logical Theory (edited with D. Micah Hester and Tom Burke), Vanderbilt, 2002
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  • Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom (edited with Robert Tempio), Prometheus, 2002
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  • III. Articles  
  • IV. Miscellaneous  

  • Philosophy in the United States, bibliographic essay, authored with John Lachs, US Department of State, 2005
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  • Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics, guest edited issue of Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18.1(2004)
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  • On James, monograph for students, authored with D. Micah Hester, Wadsworth, 2004

  • On Rawls, monograph for students, Wadsworth, 2001
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  • On Dewey, monograph for students, Wadsworth, 2000 (Japanese translation, 2002)
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  • V. Work In Progress 
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  • See My SSRN Author Page