Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics

✍ Scribed by Herman Saatkamp Jr. (editor)

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A penetrating and illuminating exchange of views between Richard Rorty, a highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher, and seven of his most thoughtful critics, providing new insights into the impact of his work on contemporary American philosophy.

Richard Rorty, William R. Kenan Professor and University Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, is a frequent and influential contributor to major literary magazines and professional journals in this country and abroad. Among his best-known book publications are The Linguistic Turn (1967 and 1992), Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), The Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), and Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1989).

✦ Table of Contents

Rorty & Pragmatism
Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
Rorty and Pragmatism
Rorty and Dewey
Rorty and the Future of Philosophy
Rorty's Responses to His Critics
1 Dewey Between Hegel & Darwin
2 Rorty's Pragmatism & Farewel to the Age of Faith & Enlightenment
Response to Charles Hartshorne
The Distinctively Human
Science and Objectivity
Freedom and Determinism
Necessary Truth
3 America & the Contestations of Modernity:Bentley, Dewey, Rorty
I. Dewey and Bentley
II. Dewey and Rorty
III. Bentley, Dewey, Rorty
Response to Thelma Lavine
4 American Pragmatism: the Conflict of Narratives
Response to Richard Bernstein
5 What is the Legacy of Instrumentalism? Rorty's Interpretation of Dewey
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II
III
IV
Response to James Gouinlock
6 Pracmatism as Naturalized Hegelianism: Overcoming Transcendental Philosophy?
I
II
III
IV
Response to Allen Hance
7 Vulgar Pragmatism: an Unedifying Prospect
I
II
Response to Susan Haack
8 Rorty & Antirealism
Rorty and Davidson
Rorty and the Loss of the World
How Rorty Exploits the Alliance with Davidson
Rorty, Davidson, Heidegger
Religious Structures in Rorty's Thought
Rorty, Disenchantment, and Modern Institutions
Response to Frank Farrell
9 Philosophy & the Future
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Response to Hartshorne
Chapter 3
Response to Lavine
Chapter 4
Response to Bernstein
Chapter 5
Response to Couinlock
Chapter 6
Response to Hance
Chapter 7
Response to Haack
Chapter 8
Response to Farrell
Chapter 9
Bibliography of Richard Rorty's Works Published as of December 31, 1994
Books
Collections of Articles in Foreign Translation
Articles and Reviews
Index
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