You will find elements of currently ongoing project I am leading or participating in. If you are interested and would like to have more information, feel free to write to me.
Public Reason Liberalism, Political Realism, and Plural Identities
Public reason liberalism has standardly been understood as a theory of legitimacy across persons who hold conflicting comprehensive doctrines; this project relocates the deeper site of pluralism inside the person, recasting public reason's central task as sustaining the integration of plural identity within each citizen while locating the roots of sectarianism in “narrow identity” at the level of the person.
Doing so confronts public reason liberalism with a previously unrecognized fork. On the one hand, a reformist reading, on which it absorbs political realism's constitutive-conflict thesis and survives as a regulative ideal. On the other hand, a chastening reading, on which legitimacy is revealed as a precarious, recurrently-failing achievement. The project's thesis is that this fork is not settled at the armchair but is indexed to actual sociopolitical and economic conditions of identity formation, making the inquiry irreducibly both philosophical and social-scientific.
No Freedom Without Harm (book project)
We live in a world where everything we do spills over onto others in ways we barely understand. Liberalism is the art of living with those externalities without sliding into domination, paralysis, or moral war. Liberalism holds that externalities can only be managed by free peoples governing themselves – and that every attempt to solve externality problems through domination makes them worse. Under what conditions is a self-governed people able to deal with externalities, acknowledging that uncertainty, ignorance, and diversity entail that individuals will disagree about what count as an externality?