Selected works by recent participants

Justin Sytsma, "Revisiting the Valence Account" (2013)

Adam Arico with Phelan and Nichols, "Thinking Things and Feeling Things: On an Alleged Discontinuity in Folk Metaphysics of Mind" (2013)

Genoveva Marti, "Against Semantic Multiculturalism" (2009)

Edouard Machery with Mallon, Nichols, and Stich, "Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style" (2004)

Gregg Caruso, Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of Free Will (2012)

Neil Levy, Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (2014)

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Jason Brennan and Kevin Vallier

Jason Brennan (left) and Kevin Vallier (right) on political liberalism and religion.

According to some prominent versions of political liberalism, coercive political force is illegitimate unless it is justifiable from every reasonable point of view. But there are many reasonable points of view from which religious beliefs cannot be justified. This seems to mean that religious political convictions are in conflict with political liberalism. However, Vallier resists that conclusion; he thinks that religious reasoning can have a legitimate role in political discourse. In this episode, Brennan and Vallier discuss Vallier’s argument.

Related works

by Brennan:
The Ethics of Voting (2011)
“The Right to a Competent Electorate” (forthcoming)

by Vallier:
“Liberalism, Religion, and Integrity” (forthcoming)
“Convergence and Consensus in Public Reason” (forthcoming)
with Gerald Gaus: “The Roles of Religious Conviction in a Publicly Justified Polity: The Implications of Convergence, Asymmetry and Political Institutions” (2009)