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About Robert Talisse
Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Robert:
October 1, 2024
The Dispersion of Power
We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typic…
September 1, 2024
Speaking for Others
We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, t…
August 1, 2024
Political Beliefs
The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, just…
July 1, 2024
Liberalism as a Way of Life
In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. …
June 1, 2024
Just Shelter
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amou…
May 1, 2024
Private Censorship
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
March 5, 2024
Social Goodness
In our day-to-day lives, we are subject to normative requirements, obligations, and expectations that originate in the social roles we occupy. For ex…
February 1, 2024
Citizen Knowledge
For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying inf…
November 1, 2023
The Darkened Light of Faith
Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is notoriously fiery. No doubt part of what’s gripping about it is its int…
October 1, 2023
On Taking Offence
A lot of work in moral, political, and legal theory aims to define the offensive. Surprisingly, relatively little attention has been paid to the affe…
August 1, 2023
Choosing Well
It is common to think that rational agency involves acting in ways that, given one’s options, maximize the satisfaction of one’s preferences. This in…
July 1, 2023
Democracy for Busy People
John Dewey and Jane Addams are both credited with the claim that the cure for democracy’s ills is more democracy. The sentiment is popular to this da…
May 1, 2023
Mobilizing Hope
The news concerning climate change isn’t good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabiliz…
April 1, 2023
Who Should We Be Online?
The Internet plays a central role in how we communicate, share information, disseminate ideas, maintain social connections, and conduct business. The…
March 1, 2023
Bias
The concept of bias is familiar enough, partly because it is deployed frequently and in different contexts. For example, we talk about biased jurors,…
February 1, 2023
A Realistic Blacktopia
In the United States, unjust disparities in things like income, opportunity, health, safety, and education tightly track racial categorizations of the…
December 30, 2022
The Idea of Prison Abolition
By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper mor…
December 1, 2022
Legitimate Opposition
The idea of legitimate political opposition is familiar. A decent political order permits citizens, parties, and coalitions to challenge those in pow…
November 1, 2022
Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability
We often find ourselves acting in concert with others, where what we do together goes beyond the causal contribution of any single participant. When …
October 3, 2022
Making Space for Justice
A standard way of proceeding in political philosophy is to start with some form of conceptual inquiry: we first try to figure out what justice, equali…
September 1, 2022
The Problem of Blame
Blame seems both morally necessary and morally dicey. Necessary, because it appears to be a central part of holding others to account for wrongdoing.…
August 1, 2022
Spying Through a Glass Darkly
On its face, spying and counter-intelligence activities seem morally suspect. They tend to involve sneaking, deceiving, and manipulating, as well as …
July 1, 2022
On Believing
According to many standard philosophical accounts, beliefs are a kind of stance one takes toward a proposition. To believe that Nashville is in Tenne…
May 3, 2022
Public Reason and Political Autonomy
According to a familiar picture, a democracy is a free society of self-governing equals. This means that democratic citizens have a duty to participa…