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| Author | : Richard Rorty |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521358774 |
A 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 |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1990-11-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139935763 |
Richard 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 | : Max Kölbel |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780415272452 |
Kölbel 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 |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139463225 |
This 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 | : Michael P. Lynch |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1998-12-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780262263467 |
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 1999 Academic debates about pluralism and truth have become increasingly polarized in recent years. One side embraces extreme relativism, deeming any talk of objective truth as philosophically naïve. The opposition, frequently arguing that any sort of relativism leads to nihilism, insists on an objective notion of truth according to which there is only one true story of the world. Both sides agree that there is no middle path. In Truth in Context, Michael Lynch argues that there is a middle path, one where metaphysical pluralism is consistent with a robust realism about truth. Drawing on the work of Hilary Putnam, W.V.O. Quine, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, Lynch develops an original version of metaphysical pluralism, which he calls relativistic Kantianism. He argues that one can take facts and propositions as relative without implying that our ordinary concept of truth is a relative, epistemic, or "soft" concept. The truths may be relative, but our concept of truth need not be.
| Author | : Richard Rorty |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2020-10-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108488455 |
"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 | : Alan R. Malachowski |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780631161493 |
In '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 |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 1991-02-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521404761 |
| Author | : Richard Rorty |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521556866 |
The 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 |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2015-06-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1317440269 |
Originally 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.
