Unravelling the Reasonable: Comment on Talisse

TY - JOUR

T1 - Unravelling the Reasonable: Comment on Talisse

AU - Festenstein, Matthew

PY - 2009/1

Y1 - 2009/1

N2 - This comment addresses itself to a central feature of Robert Talisse's A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge, 2008). In particular, I raise an objection to three claims: that the search for true beliefs requires extensive epistemic testing, that this requires a democratic social order, and that these first two claims are themselves a philosophically neutral articulation of every reasonable believer's epistemic practices. I suggest some implications of this doubt for the conception of liberalism Talisse promotes in this book.

AB - This comment addresses itself to a central feature of Robert Talisse's A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge, 2008). In particular, I raise an objection to three claims: that the search for true beliefs requires extensive epistemic testing, that this requires a democratic social order, and that these first two claims are themselves a philosophically neutral articulation of every reasonable believer's epistemic practices. I suggest some implications of this doubt for the conception of liberalism Talisse promotes in this book.

KW - Pragmatism

KW - Reasonableness

KW - Liberalism

KW - Talisse

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=68349089109&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article

SN - 0009-1774

VL - 45

SP - 55

EP - 59

JO - TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY

JF - TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY

IS - 1

ER -