Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
Philosophical Papers
Volume 1
- Author: Richard Rorty, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: November 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521358774
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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 and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
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- Date Published: November 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521358774
- length: 238 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 150 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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