Rorty and His Critics

✍ Scribed by Robert Brandom

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Series: Philosophers and their Critics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers - including Donald Davidson, Jürgen Habermas, Hilary Putnam, John McDowell, Jacques Bouveresse, and Daniel Dennett - assess Richard Rorty's arguments for revising our philosophical conceptions of truth, reality, objectivity, and justification. These essays, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been called 'the most interesting philosopher alive.'

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright & ISBN
......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Rorty -
Universality and Truth......Page 22
Habermas - Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn......Page 52
RESPONSE TO JURGEN HABERMAS......Page 77
Davidson -
Truth Rehabilitated......Page 86
RESPONSE TO DONALD DAVIDSON......Page 95
Putnam -
Richard Rorty on Reality and Justification......Page 102
RESPONSE TO HILARY PUTNAM......Page 108
Dennett -
The Case for Rorts......Page 112
RESPONSE TO DANIEL DENNETT......Page 122
McDowell -
Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity......Page 130
RESPONSE TO JOHN McDOWELL......Page 144
Bouveresse -
Reading Rorty:Pragmatism and its Consequences......Page 150
RESPONSE TO JACQUES BOUVERESSE......Page 167
Brandom - Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism......Page 177
RESPONSE TO ROBERT BRANDOM......Page 204
Williams -
Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature......Page 212
RESPONSE TO MICHAEL WILLIAMS......Page 234
Allen -
What was Epistemology?......Page 241
RESPONSE TO BARRY ALLEN......Page 257
Bilgrami -
Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry?: Rorty and Davidson on Truth......Page 263
RESPONSE TO AKEEL BILGRAMI......Page 283
Conant - Freedom, Cruelty, and Truth:
Rorty versus Orwell......Page 289
RESPONSE TO JAMES CONANT......Page 363
Ramberg -
Post-ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty versus Davidson......Page 372
RESPONSE TO BJ0RN RAMBERG......Page 391
Richard Rorty: Selected Publications......Page 399
Index......Page 414