Welcome.
I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo and author of All the Kingdoms of the World.
About Kevin
Dr. Kevin Vallier is a Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership. He currently resides in Bowling Green, Ohio. From 2012 to 2024, he served as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. Prior to that, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Political Theory Project and spent a year in Providence, Rhode Island.
Dr. Vallier is the author of four monographs, five edited volumes, and over fifty peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles. His published works include:
Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014)
Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Trust in a Polarized Age (Oxford University Press, 2020)
All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2023)
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Previous Top Rated Books
Book Endorsements
What Scholars Are Saying
Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (2014)
“An ambitious, original, and very thoughtful effort to reconcile public reason with the aspirations of religious citizens.”
— Jonathan Quong, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
“Wide-ranging and scholarly, engagingly written… a valuable source for understanding major literature on political liberalism.”
— Robert Audi, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
“This is a truly fantastic book. Vallier has broken new ground in public reason liberalism and provided a serious alternative liberalism.”
— Reviewer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society (2019)
“A book that is as philosophically original as it is politically timely.”
— Charles Larmore, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
“Wide-ranging, deeply informed, and highly ambitious… explores the potential for public reason to build trust in deeply divided liberal societies.”
— Paul Weithman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
“Even non-liberals have adequate moral reason to endorse a regime of liberal rights as morally binding.”
— Michael C. Munger, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Trust in a Polarized Age (2020)
“Kevin Vallier has written a fantastic and timely book… This book will be a touchstone for anyone in philosophy, political science, or economics working on these issues.”
— Christie Hartley, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University
“Social trust in the US had been declining for decades… Vallier makes a compelling case that distrust and political conflict are enmeshed in an insidious feedback loop. His solution is to reinvigorate the institutions of political liberalism.”
— Nolan McCarty, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
“Vallier offers a defense of liberalism that is publicly justified as an answer to political polarization.”
— Chandran Kukathas, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics
All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (2023)
“Embodies the best of liberal learning… deeply charitable and eager to reach common ground where stalemates have long taken hold.”
— Frank A. Della Torre, PhD Candidate, Baylor University
“A valuable exposition and critique of what he describes as radical religious alternatives to liberalism.”
— Daniel Edward Young, Christian Scholar’s Review
“This splendid book has something for everyone… Vallier offers a bracing view of a powerful current stream of anti-liberal thought that should shatter any complacency about taking liberal political assumptions for granted.”
— Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, University of Michigan