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Kevin Vallier

Kevin Vallier

@kvallier.bsky.social

3K followers 1.1K following 69 posts

Political philosopher (with some political theology and political economy).

Author, All the Kingdoms of the World. 9/1 release

Book page: https://t.co/iGziQkkYeS

Political science 61%

Philosophy 14%

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Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Feb 9

He doesn't need AV to write for him! He just retweets him! (This was yesterday.)

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 28

The libertarian-postliberal pipeline in a meme.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Nov 26

4. Does politics have to be as unpleasant & untrusting as it is? @kvallier.bsky.social & I debate

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/the-overlapp...

THE OVERLAPPING CONSENSUS with Kevin Vallier

Can politics move beyond a state of institutionalized aggression? Should liberalism be justified by appeals to a conception of the good or to public reason?

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 23

Sure!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 23

Briefly, it is the claim that the only thing that can legitimize state power is the reasons of the public that the state governs.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 23

And this seop.illc.uva.nl/entries/just...

Public Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

seop.illc.uva.nl

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 23

I’ve seen some say that the public reason project in political philosophy is dead. I think this is because its ethic of public deliberation looks unrealistic post 2024 election. But public justification and public deliberation are not the same thing. My case: www.jstor.org/stable/26444...

Public justification versus public deliberation: the case for divorce on JSTOR

Kevin Vallier, Public justification versus public deliberation: the case for divorce, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2015), pp. 139-158

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Some tell-tale words for LLM writing: nuance, delve, solid, key, stimulating, showcasing.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

I have been warning you people for years!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Nice. This couldn't be closer to what I'm looking for!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Is anyone in ethics/applied ethics working on when it is permissible to use LLMs in your research and writing?

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Followed yours!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Just my Substack that I’ll fire back up in the new year.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Lots of great starter packs, but it does amuse me that there’s an exvangelical pack in the first two pages of search results and not an evangelical pack.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thank you!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 20

Is there a philosophy starter pack? A law starter pack? An Econ starter pack? You apparently can’t search for them yet.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 18

Excellent!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 18

Who are good people I can follow who debate stuff on this platform? I’m scrolling a bunch and don’t see as much as I thought. But I just got here really. Tired of not seeing it on Twitter. I miss it.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 17

It really does seem like the dam has broken and that most academic communities are here or will be soon, and many other parts of the left. I’m not seeing many on the right, and I’m not sure that will happen.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 17

PPE Society is one of the best conferences ever. New ideas, perspectival diversity, high energy, full of friends, still growing.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 15

PPE Society is such a wonderful conference. I learn so much from such wonderful people.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 13

Pope Benedict XVI

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 12

I don’t know how that works at scale. You probably need a red-tribe pope to say it is cringe. B16 thought integralism was cringe.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 12

It is a complex process, but you have to take the theology seriously and taking people who begin thinking politically from Christ sort seriously. What matters then is reasoning well within their conditions.

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Nov 12

Welcome to many new people! The follower count around here has suddenly jumped by more than a factor of 10. Thanks to @polphilpod.bsky.social for alerting so many people to us.
One thing you might want to know about is the YouTube page with videos of our RGCS Lectures www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

RGCS Lectures - YouTube

www.youtube.com

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 12

You can reason with Christian Nationalists. It’s not hard. I talk to Catholic Integralists a lot.

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 12

So cool to be on a social media platform where people are talking about my trust stuff not integralism stuff, so thank you! Right now, my trust work is empirical with Cristina Biccheiri. I’ve lost some confidence in standard measures of trust. We’ll present on this at PPE Society, if you’re coming!

Kevin Vallier @kvallier.bsky.social · Nov 11

I think philosophy, poli sci, and econ Twitter are close to solving the coordination problem of coming over here. I’d hesitated because I’m so eager to connect with young people on the right and that’s where they live. But I feel like my mind has dulled with such a Musky feed.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Oct 24

www.liberalcurrents.com/kevin-vallie...

New by Paul Poenicke about @kvallier.bsky.social 's work, at @liberalcurrents.com

Kevin Vallier’s Politics of Peace Against Theocracy in “All the Kingdoms of the World”

Vallier's critique of integralism can be generalized to apply to a variety of illiberalisms.

www.liberalcurrents.com

Reposted by Kevin Vallier

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Oct 4

I go back and forth with @kvallier.bsky.social on Rawls

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/the-overlapp...

THE OVERLAPPING CONSENSUS with Kevin Vallier

Can politics move beyond a state of institutionalized aggression? Should liberalism be justified by appeals to a conception of the good or to public reason?

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com