"Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" by Tosi and Warmke. A Review
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780190900151; July 2020; $19.95 It’s melting the internet and burning up several news outlets. It makes informed dialogue among people nearly impossible, cracking up the sense of and desire for the common good. It looks and feels like chest-thumping and cock-strutting, and is turning up, with greater intensity, in the Whitehouse, the publishing house, and at the alehouse. Recently, a well-documented 248-page hardback has arrived on the scene diagnosing this “more-heat-than-light” predicament, “Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk”. The authors, Justin Tosi - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University, and Brandon Warmke - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, want to foster moral talk, but find huge obstacles. “People need to be able to talk about justice, freedom, equality, and the right thing to do...