Robert B. Talisse

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Robert B. Talisse
Born (1970-01-09) January 9, 1970 (age 54)
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy

Robert B. Talisse (born 1970) is an American philosopher and political theorist. He is currently Professor of Philosophy

Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2001. His principal area of research is political philosophy, with an emphasis on democratic theory and liberalism
.

Research

Talisse's philosophical work tends to employ the idiom of

John Gray
; his 2012 book, Pluralism and Liberal Politics is devoted to these debates.

Folk epistemology

In his most recent writing,[

argumentation
, the media, and public ignorance.

Informal logic

Talisse has also contributed to contemporary discussions in informal logic. In a paper published in 2006 titled "Two Forms of the Straw Man",[10] Talisse and Aikin proposed an original analysis of a new form of the Straw Man Fallacy, what they called The Weak Man Fallacy. In the traditional Straw Man, one misconstrues one's interlocutor's argument in a way that makes it especially weak, and then refutes it. In the Weak Man version, one selects an especially weak rendition of the opposing view, treats it as representative of the opposition as such, and refutes it, leaving one's audience with the impression that the opposition has thereby been refuted when in fact only the most vulnerable version of the opposing view has been addressed. Talisse and Aikin have also published a paper about the rhetorical strategy of repeating one's interlocutor's position in a dismissive or mocking tone of voice, which is titled "Modus Tonens".[11] Talisse and Aikin have written a book together about atheism that is forthcoming from Prometheus Books titled Reasonable Atheism.

2002 conference controversy

In 2002, Talisse co-organized a conference marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual

neoconservatives, including Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Hilton Kramer, who had been invited to speak at the conference withdrew upon learning that the pragmatist philosopher Cornel West had also been invited. According to Talisse, some of those who withdrew threatened to also attempt to convince those who had provided funding for the event to withdraw.[12]
Despite the protests, the conference was held at the City University of New York Graduate Center in October 2002, with West as a participant.

Public appearances

In February 2010 Talisse appeared on the popular podcast Philosophy Bites where he was interviewed by Nigel Warburton about pragmatism and American philosophy. He returned to Philosophy Bites in July 2018 where he was interviewed by David Edmonds on overdoing democracy.

Bibliography (authored books)

References

  1. ^ "Vanderbilt University Philosophy Department".
  2. ^ "UI Press | Journals | Public Affairs Quarterly".
  3. ^ "3quarksdaily". Archived from the original on 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
  4. ^ "Graduate Student Home Page". people.vanderbilt.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-04-14.
  5. ^ Talisse, Robert B. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, New York: Routledge, 2007
  6. ^ Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine, volume 45, number 1 (2009). See also Festenstein, Matthew, "Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Political Liberalism," Contemporary Political Theory volume 9, number 1 (2010), pages 25-44.
  7. ^ Misak, Cheryl. Truth, Politics, and Morality (New York: Routledge, 2000)
  8. ^ See Bacon, Michael, "The Politics of Truth: A Critique of Peircean Deliberative Democracy," Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol 36, number 9 (2010): pages 1075-1091
  9. ^ Talisse, Robert. Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Chapter 3
  10. ^ Talisse and Aikin, "Two Forms of the Straw Man," Argumentation 20.3 (2006): 345-352
  11. ^ Talisse, Robert and Scott Aikin, "Modus Tonens," Argumentation 22 (2008), pages 521-529
  12. ^ Alterman, Eric. "Who's Afraid of Cornel West?" The Nation, July 15, 2002

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