Listen here: From the Acton website: Kevin Vallier, political philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, joins Dan Hugger to discuss Catholic Integr...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/media/acton-line-the-new-catholic-integralism/
Sorry for the hiatus. I keep doing podcasts and articles on other sites for Trust in a Polarized Age, and I don’t want to irritate my readers on social media with too much content. When I get d...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/new-finding-us-social-trust-has-fallen-23-points-since-1964/
I’d like to return to my ongoing interest in anti-liberal doctrines, especially the new Catholic integralism. I think it might be worthwhile exploring how the political liberalism of John Raw...
The last two months have been challenging for me, hence my lack of blogging. They aren’t limited to losing my advisor. But what I have seen running throughout many of these challenges is a kind...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/the-wounds-of-the-heart/
We were supposed to meet up on Zoom on Wednesday night to talk and make life during COVID a bit easier. But one month ago, Jerry Gaus, my teacher and friend, passed away. I’d like to tell you a...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/jerry-gaus-a-remembrance-of-his-character-and-his-work/
Written By His Students Jacob Barrett Adam Gjesdal Bill Glod Keith Hankins Brian Kogelmann Ryan Muldoon John Thrasher Kevin Vallier Chad Van Schoelandt It is difficult to describe Jerry Gaus’s ...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/jerry-gaus-1952-2020-constant-learning-in-a-complex-world/
A common theme in Jason’s blog posts on public reason (in response to some of my own) is that public reason liberals aren’t alone in trying to do a kind of second-order moral theory – resol...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/is-everyone-doing-second-order-moral-theory-they-can-try/
Imagine you’re in a tough marriage. You disagree with your spouse about many issues of great importance, like how to raise the kids, how to spend money, and so on. Imagine that, after all your ...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/brennans-war-public-reasons-peace/
Over at 200-proof liberals, Jason Brennan offers another criticism of public reason liberalism. Central to public reason liberalism(s) is that idea of a public justification, a justification for ...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/public-justification-is-not-redundant-a-dialogue/
I’m not a divine command theorist, but the position is far more serious than moral philosophers think. One reason for this is that most moral philosophers don’t take theism seriously, and so ...
https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/whats-actually-wrong-with-divine-command-theory/