This essay responds to the critique of my work by Robert Talisse, the philosopher, by further clarifying my views on the meaning of value pluralism, its implications, and the nature of philosophy. I argue here that most, if not all, of the substantive arguments that Talisse advances against me derive from premises that are contested by respected scholars within his own field.
DoddJ.Stern-GilletS. (1995). The is/ought gap, the fact/value distinction and the naturalistic fallacy. Dialogue, 34, 727-746.
9.
GalstonW. A. (2004). Liberal pluralism: A reply to Talisse. Contemporary Political Theory, 3, 140-147.
10.
GalstonW. A. (2009). Moral pluralism and liberal democracy: Isaiah Berlin’s heterodox liberalism. The Review of Politics, 71, 85-99.
11.
GrayJ. (1996). Isaiah Berlin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
12.
HampshireS. (1949). Fallacies in moral philosophy. Mind, 58, 466-482.
13.
HampshireS. (1989). Innocence and experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
14.
NijsinghN.DüwellM. (2009). Interdisciplinarity, applied ethics and social science. In SollieP.DüwellM. (Eds.), Evaluating new technologies: Methodological problems for the ethical assessment of technology developments (pp. 79-92). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Science.
15.
OvereemP.VerhoefJ. (2014). Moral dilemmas, theoretical confusion: Value pluralism and its supposed implications for public administration. Administration & Society, 46, 986-1009.
16.
RortyR. (2007). Philosophy as cultural politics: Philosophical papers, Volume 4. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
17.
SpicerM. W. (2001). Value pluralism and its implications for American public administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 23, 507-528.
18.
SpicerM. W. (2010). In defense of politics in public administration: A value pluralist perspective. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
19.
SpicerM. W. (2014). In defense of value pluralism in public administration. Administration & Society, 46, 1010-1019.
20.
TalisseR. B. (2011). Value pluralism and liberal politics. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 14, 87-100.
21.
TalisseR. B. (2015). Value pluralism: A philosophical clarification. Administration and Society. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0095399715593315
22.
WilliamsB. (1978). Politics and moral character. In HampshireS. (Ed.), Public and private morality (pp. 55-74). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
