 He has also published several articles criticizing the value pluralism associated with Isaiah Berlin, William Galston, and John Gray; his 2012 book, "Pluralism and Liberal Politics" is devoted to these debates.In his most recent writing, Talisse has downplayed the pragmatist roots of his views, and instead attempted to devise a deliberative democratic theory from what he calls "folk epistemology".The idea is that there are epistemic norms which govern epistemic agents simply in virtue of the fact that they hold beliefs.