1. Richard Rorty Richard Rorty. Richard Rorty's distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism expresses itself along two main axes Richard Rorty was born on October 4th, 1931, in New York City http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty

version history HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A B C D ... Z This document uses XHTML-1/Unicode to format the display. Older browsers and/or operating systems may not display the formatting correctly. last substantive content change FEB Richard Rorty Richard Rorty's distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism expresses itself along two main axes. One is negative-a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive-an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. The centerpiece of Rorty's critique is the provocative account offered in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979, hereafter PMN). In this book, and in the closely related essays collected in Consequences of Pragmatism (1982, hereafter CP), Rorty's principal target is the philosophical idea of knowledge as representation, as a mental mirroring of a mind-external world. Providing a contrasting image of philosophy, Rorty has sought to integrate and apply the milestone achievements of Dewey, Hegel and Darwin in a pragmatist synthesis of historicism and naturalism. Characterizations and illustrations of a post-epistemological intellectual culture, present in both PMN (part III) and CP (xxxvii-xliv), are more richly developed in later works, such as

2. Richard Rorty's Homepage Philosopher Richard Rorty's homepage. Contains recent manuscripts, bibliographical information and contact information. Richard Rorty. Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature and, by http://www.stanford.edu/~rrorty

Richard Rorty Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, of Philosophy at Stanford University. He can be reached at the following address: Pigott Hall, Bldg 260 Stanford, CA 94305-2031 Or by e-mail at: rrorty (at) stanford.edu. Recent Manuscripts Analytic Philosophy and Transformative Philosophy Redemption from Egotism Remarks at MOMA The Decline of Redemptive Truth and the Rise of a Literary Culture ... A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy Bibliographical Material Bibliography of Rorty's Works (Updated 12/09/02) Reviews of Rorty's Books Book Reviews by Rorty (Added 12/09/02) Interviews with Rorty (Updated 06/30/03) Curriculum Vitae This page was created and is maintained by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. If you have questions or comments about the page, you may email him at glk (at) stanfordalumni.org.

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4. Rorty Richard From FOLDOC rorty richard. history of philosophy, biography American philosopher born in 1931; author of Consequences of Pragmatism (1982) and http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Rorty Richard

5. Rorty Richard - La Filosofia E Lo... Translate this page rorty richard. La filosofia e lo specchio della natura. Testo inglese a fronte. 800 p., € 29,00 Il pensiero occidentale Bompiani http://www.alice.it/forthcom/fi/fi921566.htm

Rorty Richard La filosofia e lo specchio della natura. Testo inglese a fronte Il pensiero occidentale Bompiani (data di pubblicazione prevista: Luglio 2004) Richard Rorty, profondamente legato alla tradizione intellettuale americana, ma anche molto sensibile ai risultati del pensiero esistenzialistico ed ermeneutico europeo, definisce la propria posizione attraversando criticamente la filosofia analitica, che egli discute e, alla fine, "confuta", sia mettendone in luce intime difficoltà e contraddizioni, sia richiamandosi ai contenuti pragmatistici della tradizione americana, in base ai quali diventa chiaro che la filosofia analitica è ancora una versione, la più aggiornata, della concezione metafisica del pensiero. Con nota introduttiva di Diego Marconi e Gianni Vattimo.

6. LE NOVITA Translate this page rorty richard. Libri di rorty richard pubblicati da Garzanti La svolta linguistica Una sinistra per il prossimo secolo. Directory Autori. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. http://www.garzantilibri.it/autori_main.php?page=schedaautore&CPID=496

7. Richard Rorty - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Richard Rorty. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Rorty (born October 4, 1931 in New York City) is an American postmodernist philosopher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rorty

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Richard Rorty From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Rorty (born October 4 in New York City ) is an American philosopher . He is considered by many to be the most influential, and is certainly the most controversial philosopher of the late twentieth century. Rorty matriculated at the University of Chicago and Yale University , and he spent his early career trying to reconcile his personal interests and beliefs with the Platonic search for Truth . His doctoral dissertation, “The Concept of Potentiality,” and his first book, The Linguistic Turn (1956) were firmly in the prevailing analytic mode. However, his discovery of the American philosophical movement known as Pragmatism , especially the writings of John Dewey , as well as the groundbreaking work being done by post-analytic philosophers such as W.V. Quine and Wilfrid Sellars , caused a revolution in his thinking. Pragmatists generally hold that the worth of an idea should be measured by its usefulness or ability to cope with a given problem, not by its correspondence to some antecedent ‘Truth.’ Rorty takes this definition to its most extreme point. In his major opus

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9. Richard Rorty Richard Rorty The most interesting living philosopher in the world. Harold Bloom. Professor Richard Rorty, Emeritus Humanities http://www.dartmouth.edu/~thedc/Winter2000/rorty.html

Table of Contents About Us Letter to Editor Back Issues ... Previous Article Richard Rorty "The most interesting living philosopher" in the world. -Harold Bloom The Dartmouth Contemporary's essay editor, Christopher Moore, spoke with him at Stanford last week about the American Student, the American University, Western Canon core requirements, and philosophy. TDC: Why do students, either freshmen just entering into college, or juniors and seniors completing their major requirements, pursue or continue the study of philosophy? Particularly considering contemporary anglo-American analytical philosophy, in which, as you say, professional philosophers are "still arguing inconclusively, tramping round and round the same dialectical circles, never convincing each other?" RR: Typically, people go into philosophy because they have read some particular philosophical text, usually Plato or Nietzsche, that turned them on and made them want to read more in the general area. The ones who stay in philosophy get interested in the problems discussed in philosophy departments. These problems differ a lot depending on what country you're in, what decade you're in, and stuff like that. Some of them are pretty close to the issues Plato and Nietzsche were worried about, some are pretty remote. Philosophy doesn't get as many studentsmajors, graduate studentsin the US and Britain as it does in other countries because of the special kinds of problems analytic philosophers work on. But enough bright people get interested in these problems to keep the profession going.

10. Metapsychology Online Book Reviews - Richard Rorty Richard Rorty by Alan Malachowski, Richard Rorty. Volume III by Alan Malachowski Sage Publications, 2002 Review by Richard Matthews, Ph.D. on Apr 10th 2003. http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1639

11. Richard Rorty's Platonists, Positivists, And Pragmatists richard rorty (1982). Consequences of Pragmatism. Source Consequences of Pragmatism, publ. University of Minnesota Press, 1982. Introduction reproduced here. http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/rorty.htm

Richard Rorty (1982) Consequences of Pragmatism Source Consequences of Pragmatism , publ. University of Minnesota Press, 1982. Introduction reproduced here. Introduction 1. Platonists, Positivists, and Pragmatists The essays in this book are attempts to draw consequences from a pragmatist theory about truth. This theory says that truth is not the sort of thing one should expect to have a philosophically interesting theory about. For pragmatists, "truth" is just the name of a property which all true statements share. It is what is common to "Bacon did not write Shakespeare," "It rained yesterday," "E equals mc2" "Love is better than hate," "The Allegory of Painting was Vermeer's best work," "2 plus 2 is 4," and "There are nondenumerable infinities." Pragmatists doubt that there is much to be said about this common feature. They doubt this for the same reason they doubt that there is much to be said about the common feature shared by such morally praiseworthy actions as Susan leaving her husband, America joining the war against the Nazis, America pulling out of Vietnam, Socrates not escaping from jail, Roger picking up litter from the trail, and the suicide of the Jews at Masada. They see certain acts as good ones to perform, under the circumstances, but doubt that there is anything general and useful to say about what makes them all good. The assertion of a given sentence -or the adoption of a disposition to assert the sentence, the conscious acquisition of a belief -is a justifiable, praiseworthy act in certain circumstances. But

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14. Books & Authors - 98.04.23 A conversation with richard rorty by Scott Stossel. April 23, 1998 richard rorty, one of the most famous living philosophers in the United States, would seem an http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980423.htm

A conversation with Richard Rorty by Scott Stossel April 23, 1998 Richard Rorty, one of the most famous living philosophers in the United States, would seem an unlikely person to be exhorting the American Left to "kick the philosophy habit." And yet in his new book, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, that is exactly what Rorty does. Arguing that political liberalism in this country has been derailed by the abstract theoretical dithering of what he calls the Cultural Left Who cares what Lacan says about repression? What does Foucault's theory of knowledge have to do with diminishing wage inequality or broadening civil rights? Rorty calls for a more engaged Left dedicated to narrowing the wage gap, alleviating poverty, reducing social injustice, and pursuing other historically Progressive causes. Discuss this interview in the The Body Politic All for One, One for All (April 1998) Can science call the postmodernist bluff? Edward O. Wilson, the author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, says it can and must.

15. Richard Rorty And The Postmodern Rejection Of Absolute Truth Article by Dean Geuras. A general description of postmodernism and rorty's support for it, as well as a critique from a Christian perspective. critical remarks http://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/geuras.html

Academics Humanities Social Sciences Sciences Theology ... Faculty Offices Departments Current Issues Publications Conferences/Events Apologetics ... What's New Special Interest Past Features Other Sites Help LU About LU ... Feedback Navigation Site Map Site Index Advanced Search Browsing Help ... LU Home LU Updates Receive LU-Announce Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth Dean Geuras, Professor of Philosophy, Southwest Texas State University Dean Geuras received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Southwest Texas State University. How should Christians respond to postmodernism? Is it a profound threat that we must refute else it undermine the Christian perspective? Or is it a benign alternative to the more explicitly atheistic philosophies that have dominated twentieth-century thought? I answer that it is not benign, but that, even if Christians make no attempt to refute it, it will destroy itself, and possibly its antireligious philosophical predecessors such as Sartrian existentialism, logical positivism, and Wittgensteinianism. This self-destruction will occur despite the efforts of Richard Rorty, postmodernism’s most gifted defender, who may ultimately do more to destroy the movement that to defend it. However, I do not suggest philosophical passivity. There is much that both Christians and non Christians can learn and apply from the dead-ended emptiness of postmodernism. My paper is divided into three parts. The first is a general description of postmodernism and Rorty’s support for it. In the second section, I make some critical remarks about Rorty’s analyses of truth and objective reality, insofar as they express postmodern elements. I suggest that the problems that I find in Rorty’s position derive from his unwitting adoption of the very Cartesian modernism that he professes to reject. In my final section, I discuss what inferences we, as Christian scholars, can draw from what I take to be Rorty’s failures. In this section I maintain, that we ought to base our scholarship upon suppositions consistent with our Christianity but that they ought not to be singularly Christian or even singularly theistic. The suppositions to which I refer are precisely those that postmodernists reject: that there is objective truth, objective moral value, and an intelligible universe.

16. Gender Deconstruct richard rorty, 1993 paper at University of California at San Diego Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction a Pragmatist View. (Special Issue Feminism and Pragmatism) http://gort.ucsd.edu/jhan/ER/rr.html

Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction: a Pragmatist View Rorty, Richard. Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction: a Pragmatist View. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism) Hypatia v8, n2 (Spring, 1993) Most intellectuals like to find ways of joining in the struggle of the weak against the strong. So they hope that their particular gifts and competences can be made relevant to that struggle. The term most frequently used in recent decades to formulate this hope is "critique of ideology." The idea is that philosophers, literary critics, lawyers, historians, and others who are good at making distinctions, redescribing, and recontextualizing can put these talents to use by "exposing" or "demystifying" present social practices. But the most efficient way to expose or demystify an existing practice would seem to be by suggesting an alternative practice, rather than criticizing the current one. In politics, as in the Kuhnian model of theory-change in the sciences, anomalies within old paradigms can pile up indefinitely without providing much basis for criticism until a new option is offered. "Immanent" criticism of the old paradigm is relatively ineffective. More specifically, the most effective way to criticize current descriptions of a given instance of the oppression of the weak as "a necessary evil" (the political equivalent of "a negligible anomaly") is to explain just why it is not in fact necessary, by explaining how a specific institutional change would eliminate it. That means sketching an alternative future and a scenario of political action that might take us from the present to that future.

17. Richard Rorty -- Philosophy Books And Online Resources 20th Century Philosophy richard rorty find book reviews, essays by and about richard rorty, American pragmatism, bibliographies, and more. richard rorty. http://www.erraticimpact.com/~20thcentury/html/rorty_richard.htm

20th Century Index General Resources Women in Philosophy New Book Search ... Advertising Richard Rorty Online Resources Texts: Richard Rorty Used Books: Richard Rorty Know of a Resource? Books Magazines Popular Music Classical Music DVD Video Video Games Computers Software Electronics Housewares Hardware Outdoor Living Toys Baby Gear Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty A superb introduction to one of today's leading and most provocative thinkers. Since Plato most philosophy has aimed at true knowledge, penetrating beneath appearances to an underlying reality. Against this tradition, Richard Rorty convincingly argues, pragmatism offers a new philosophy of hope. One of the most controversial figures in recent philosophical and wider literary and cultural debate, Rorty brings together an original collection of his most recent philosophical and cultural writings. He explains in a fascinating memoir how he began to move away from Plato towards William James and Dewey, culminating in his own version of pragmatism. What ultimately matters, Rorty suggests, is not whether our ideas correspond to some fundamental reality but whether they help us carry out practical tasks and create a fairer and more democratic society. Aimed at a general audience, this volume offers a stimulating summary of Rorty's central philosophical beliefs, as well as some challenging insights into contemporary culture, justice, education, and love.

18. Interview With Richard Rorty By Joshua Knobe, 1995. Covers many aspects of this thinker's career. http://www.princeton.edu/~jknobe/rorty.html

A Talent for Bricolage An Interview with Richard Rorty Conducted in January, 1995 Interviewer: Joshua Knobe First published in The Dualist, 2 , 1995, pp. 56-71 Early Life Interviewer: Let's begin with your childhood. Were you a Trotskyite yourself, or was it just something your parents imposed on you? Rorty: I was just brought up a Trotskyite, the way people are brought up Methodists or Jews or something like that. It was just the faith of the household. Int: Was it the same with Dewey? Rorty: Not really. I mean, Dewey didn't loom as large. My parents weren't particularly interested in philosophy, and I don't think they'd read much Dewey. Int: And Sidney Hook? Rorty: My father and Sidney Hook had left the Communist Party at the same time. And that served as a bond between them. He was a family friend whom I went to see when I decided to go into philosophy. I saw Sidney when I was seventeen or eighteen. He told me: "So, you want to be a philosopher. Publish early and often." You know, a few tips of that general sort and then I saw him over the years and he knew that I disagreed with him about the Vietnam War. That caused a certain edginess. But toward the end of his life, the edginess had disappeared, and we were on reasonably good terms. Int: Were you isolated by your political beliefs?

19. Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi 1995 essay by John Rothfork. Focuses on ethical and political aspects of rorty's work. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/6997/rorty.html

Postmodern Ethics: The editors of the Southern Humanities Review honored this essay with the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for the best essay published by the journal in 1995. In this essay I hope to answer some of the charges made against postmodernism in general and against Richard Rorty's work in particular by critics who often feel caught in the position of being attracted by the philosophical allure of postmodern epistemology but angry at finding themselves on a slippery slope sliding towards what they fear is moral decay and intellectual anarchy. Christopher Norris' prolific work may speak for many who feel this way. In "Consensus 'Reality' and Manufactured Truth" ( Southern Humanities Review , 26.1; Winter, 1992), Norris excoriated the least restrained or most poetic member of the French postmodern contingent, Jean Baudrillard, for being so caught up in his enthusiasm for the simulated "realities" of computer "worlds" that he found it difficult to tell the difference between an arcade game, CNN programming, and the actual military event of the Persian Gulf War. The consequence was a loss of moral judgment. In "'New Times,' Postmodernism, and the Politics of Distraction" ( Southern Humanities Review , 26.3; Summer, 1992) Norris argued that postmodernism is a "convenient alibi for thinkers with a large (if unacknowledged) stake in the 'cultural logic of late capitalism'" (269). The suggestion is that moral judgment is subsumed by ideological rhetoric.

20. Richard Rorty The Public Philosopher An article by Michael Albert. Critiques rorty from a leftist perspective. http://www.zmag.org/rortyphil.htm

Richard Rorty the Public Philosopher by Michael Albert All Rorty quotations are from his book, Truth and Progress , Cambridge University Press, 1998. Truth What is truth? How do we arrive at it? Richard Rorty denies that "the search for objective truth is a search for correspondence to reality and urge[s] that it be seen instead as a search for the widest possible intersubjective agreement." Bruno Latour is a famous French sociologist, highly admired by left academics in numerous countries, who takes Rorty seriously. As Sokal and Bricmont relate in their revealing new book Intellectual Impostures , Latour rejects a claim by French Scientists working on the mummy of the Paraoh Ramses II, that Ramses died in roughly 1213 due to tuberculosis. Latour asks, "How could he pass away [in 1213] due to a bacillus discovered by Robert Koch in 1882?" In other words, in tune with Rorty Latour forgets about there being or not being a bacillus and wonders only when people intersubjectively about one, concluding that "before Koch, the bacillus has no real existence." What would Rorty reply? For that matter, how would Rorty distinguish claims by biologists working for Marlboro from claims by biologists seeking objectivity? And if true beliefs do not "correspond to the intrinsic nature of reality," but arise only from "intersubjective agreement," how does Rorty counter when the entire U.S. media says the U.S. bombed Vietnam to benefit the Vietnamese?

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