Richard Rorty

✍ Scribed by Charles Guignon, David R. Hiley

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Series: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Arguably the most influential of all contemporary English-speaking philosophers, Richard Rorty has transformed the way many philosophers think about the discipline and the traditional ways of practicing it. The essays in this volume offer a balanced exposition and critique of Rorty's views on knowledge, language, truth, science, morality and politics. Written by a distinguished roster of philosophers, this introduction presents a valuable overview of Rorty's philosophical vision. It will appeal as well to students in the social sciences, literary studies, cultural studies and political theory. Charles Guigon, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, has published widely on existentialism, psychotherapy and Heidegger, and edited the Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (1993). Provost and Professor at the University of New Hampshire, David R. Hiley, is also the author of other works, including Philosophy in Question: Essays on a Pyrrhonian Theme (University of Chicago, 1988) and The Interpretive Turn: Philosophy, Science and Culture (Cornell, 1991).

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Work by Other Authors......Page 15
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 19
2. THE PRAGMATIST CRITIQUE OF EPISTEMOLOGY-CENTERED PHILOSOPHY......Page 25
3. PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE......Page 39
4. CRITICIZING RORTY......Page 47
Notes......Page 56
THE MODERN ORIGINS OF EPISTEMOLOGY......Page 59
JUSTIFICATION AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM......Page 62
JUSTIFICATION AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE......Page 65
THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH......Page 70
Notes......Page 76
3 Rorty on Knowledge and Truth......Page 79
AGAINST THE TRADITION......Page 80
PRAGMATISM AND TRUTH......Page 84
RORTY’S HUMEAN TURN......Page 87
FROM FALLIBILISM TO SKEPTICISM......Page 93
Notes......Page 97
4 From Realism or Antirealism to Science as Solidarity......Page 99
REALISM AND THE QUEST FOR SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY......Page 101
SCIENCE AS SOLIDARITY......Page 109
SURPASSING RORTY?......Page 114
Notes......Page 119
5 Rorty’s Democratic Hermeneutics......Page 123
EFFECTIVE-HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 125
HERMENEUTICS AND POLITICS......Page 132
Notes......Page 140
6 Rorty’s Inspirational Liberalism......Page 142
Notes......Page 156
7 Don’t Be Cruel: Reflections on Rortyian Liberalism......Page 157
Notes......Page 174
I......Page 176
II......Page 185
III......Page 190
IV......Page 194
V......Page 195
Notes......Page 198
Articles......Page 199
Secondary Sources – Books on Rorty in English......Page 202
Secondary Sources – Selected Articles on Rorty......Page 205
Index......Page 219