Questions tagged [rorty]
Richard McKay Rorty (1931 – 2007) was an American philosopher.
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Rorty's Pragmatism
When I've heard famous philosophers speak or read their writing, I have usually been impressed by their reasoning and insight even if I didn't agree with them. Richard Rorty is an exception. I ...
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What does postmodernism say about Human Nature?
Chomsky who is anti-postmodernism believes humans have a nature which makes them inherently creative which can be achieved in a free society. This is in opposition to Foucault who talks bout the ...
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How did the french postmodernists and Rorty arrive to the same conclusion using different methodology?
Rorty founded pragmatism -> which is basically that words only get their meanign based on how they're used
French postmodernists on the other hand did different things all attacking Grand ...
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What Richard Rorty understands by science?
I just read Philosophy and social hope, a collection of essays by Richard Rorty. Except for the excess of academicism, I can say I’m definitely inspired by it and happy with the discussions it threw ...
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What is bourgeois liberalism (as associated with Rorty)?
In his SEP-article on Richard Rorty, Bjorn Ramberg on two occasions mentions bourgeois liberalism without offering any details of what Rorty or others mean by it. I have never come across this ...
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Query the salient differences between the neo pragmatistism of Richard Rorty and Hillary Putnam (may they RIP)
While I have over the years read most of what Richard Rorty and Hillary Putnam have “popularly” written/edited [that is aside from their scholarly treatises in academic journals that have for years ...
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Where did Rorty claim no essential difference between Philosophy and Literary Criticism/Theory?
What's the source for this comment?
Rorty infamously claimed (in so many words) that there is no essential difference between philosophy and litcrit.
Has any other philosophers argued this?
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Is there a conflict between upholding rational justification and seeing societal norms as its ultimate source?
Societal norms in many philosophical schools has come to be seen as the end-all determinant of rational life.
This attitude is displayed by Richard Rorty when he says "truth is simply a compliment ...
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How should we choose between different theories according to Rorty, based on Kuhn?
Popper tried to distinguish a scientific framework from a non-scientific framework ( like Marxism or Psychoanalysis, according to him) by suggesting the criterion of falsification.
Kuhn suggested ...
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Normativity in Science
According to the description of language and norms in Analytic Philosophy (and especially in the way Rorty talks about it in Contingency Irony and Solidarity) we cannot judge one vocabulary using our ...
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The Irony of Rorty's Ethnocentrism and "Lonely Provincialism"
In his philosophy, Rorty “turns” his reorientation in analytic philosophy and epistemology away from knowledge to a new focus on hope. He adopts the stance of fallibilism and the “liberal ironism,” ...
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What does "to naturalize reason" mean?
I am a newbie in philosophy.
I've just started reading "The philosophy book" that is a broad introduction about the main philosophers.
I found interesting the article on Richard Rorty, so I started ...
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Which works of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Dewey does Rorty call "therapeutic"?
In the introduction to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Rorty speaks of later works of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Dewey as
therapeutic rather than constructive, edifying rather than systematic, ...
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Is there an alternative canon for Western modern philosophy?
After Richard Rorty died, Raymond Geuss wrote some recollections of their encounters. In his reminiscence, Geuss mentions that Rorty projected teaching an undergraduate course called "An Alternate ...
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Was Rorty a Relativist?
Richard Rorty spent much of his career defending his work against accusations of Relativism, and yet his name is often mentioned in such discussions. Are these accusations of Relativism directed at ...
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Which philosophers have done most to bridge the analytic/continental divide?
I am interested to find out work done in this direction by prominent philosophers in each tradition.
My paradigm cases would be Richard Rorty on the analytic side and Alain Badiou on the continental ...