Richard Rorty (California Stanford University)

Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth

Philosophical Papers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Richard Rorty: Philosophical Papers Set 4 Paperbacks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780521358774
• ISBN-10: 0521358779
• Artikelnr.: 22335710

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism
Part I. Solidarity or Objectivity?: 1. Science as solidarity
2. Is natural science a natural kind?
3. Pragmatism without method
4. Texts and lumps
5. Inquiry as recontextualization: an anti-dualist account of interpretation
Part II. Non-Reductive Physicalism: 5. Pragmatism, Davidson and truth
6. Representation, social practice, and truth
7. Unfamiliar noises: Hesse and Davidson on metaphor
PART III. The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy: 8. Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism
9. On ethnocentrism: a reply to Clifford Geertz
10. Cosmopolitanism without emancipation: a response to Jean-Francois Lyotard
Index of names.