Foreign thinker
Robert B. Talisse
Robert B. TalissePolitical Philosophy, Political Epistemology, and PragmatismAmerican
Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is a moral and epistemic commitment to regarding one another as reasonable and equal beings.
Life and Thought
Robert Talisse is a prominent American philosopher and political theorist, and a professor at Vanderbilt University. He is best known for his research on democratic theory, political epistemology, pluralism, and a pragmatist defense of democracy.
Robert B. Talisse (born 1970) is an American philosopher and political theorist who holds the W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He earned his advanced degrees in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo and the City University of New York, and his research focuses primarily on political philosophy, social epistemology, and the pragmatist tradition.
One of the central themes in Talisse's thought is the critique and reconstruction of deliberative democracy and an epistemology-based defense of democracy. In works such as Democracy and Moral Conflict and Why Democracy Needs Epistemology, he argues that a commitment to democracy entails a commitment to epistemic norms and the rational exchange of reasons.
Talisse's recent work examines the harms of social polarization and the excessive injection of politics into all dimensions of life. In well-known books such as Overdoing Democracy and The Argument Between Enemies, he offers a diagnostic analysis of political polarization and ways to preserve the ethics of dialogue in pluralistic societies.
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