 Talisse and Aikin have written a book together about atheism that is forthcoming from Prometheus Books titled "Reasonable Atheism".In 2002, Talisse co-organized a conference marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual Sidney Hook.The conference provoked some controversy when several neoconservatives, including Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Hilton Kramer, who had been invited to speak at the conference withdrew upon learning that the pragmatist philosopher Cornel West had also been invited.