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Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521358774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA continuation of the philosopher's attack on traditional attempts to establish objective fundamental truths concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-11-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1139935763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-02-24
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521367813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.
Author: Max Kölbel
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780415272452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKölbel examines and rejects the mainstream view of 'meaning' and how this relates to truth, instead developing and defending an alternative, relativist, theory.
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-02-22
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521404761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1108488455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1139463225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and Progress. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress, the notion of 'moral identity', the Wittgensteinian claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic in nature, the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy, and the mistaken idea that philosophers should find the 'place' of such things as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles. The papers form a rich and distinctive collection which will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in philosophy and its relation to culture.
Author: Alan R. Malachowski
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780631161493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' Richard Rorty presented his provocation and influential vision of the post-philosophical culture, calling upon professional philosophers to accept that epistemology is dead, that the analytic method is a myth, and that philosophy and science are merely forms of literature.
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521556866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. The essays in the volume engage with the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Juergen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Charles Taylor. The collection also touches on problems in contemporary feminism raised by Annette Baier, Marilyn Frye, and Catherine MacKinnon, and considers issues connected with human rights and cultural differences.
Author: R. W. Newell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1317440269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1986. Wittgenstein, William James, Thomas Kuhn and John Wisdom share an attitude towards problems in the theory of knowledge which is fundamentally in conflict with the empiricist tradition. They encourage the idea that in understanding the central concepts of epistemology – objectivity, certainty and reasoning – people and their practices matter most. This clash between orthodox empiricism and a freshly inspired pragmatism forms the background to the strands of argument in this book. With these philosophers as a guide, it points to new directions by showing how the theory of knowledge can be shaped around our actions without sacrificing reason’s control over our beliefs.
