On Philosophy and Philosophers - Unpublished Papers, 19602000

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy.

List of contents

Introduction. Rorty as a Critical Philosopher Wojciech Mäecki and Christopher Voparil; Part I. Early Papers: 1. Philosophy as Ethics; 2. Philosophy as Spectatorship and Participation; 3. Kant as a Critical Philosopher; 4. The Paradox of Definitism; 5. Reductionism; 6. Phenomenology, Linguistic Analysis, and Cartesianism: Comments on Ricoeur; 7. The Incommunicability of 'Felt Qualities'; 8. Kripke on Mind-Body Identity; Part II. Later Papers: 9. Philosophy as Epistemology: Reply to Hacking and Kim; 10. Naturalized Epistemology and Norms: Replies to Goldman and Fodor; 11. The Objectivity of Values; 12. What is Dead in Plato; 13. The Current State of Philosophy in the U.S.; 14. Brandom's Conversationalism: Davidson and Making It Explicit; 15. Bald Naturalism and McDowell's Hylomorphism; 16. Reductionist vs. Neo-Wittgensteinian Semantics; 17. Remarks on Nishida and Nishitani.

About the author

Richard Rorty (1931–2007) was Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, California.W. P. Małecki is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Wrocław, Poland.Chris Voparil teaches political theory and philosophy at Union Institute & University, Cincinnati.

Summary

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. These previously unseen papers advance novel views on metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, philosophical semantics and the social role of philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Rorty, Richard Voparil Rorty, Rorty Richard, Chris Voparil
• Assisted by: W P Malecki (Editor), W. P. Malecki (Editor), Wojciech Malecki (Editor), W. P. Małecki (Editor), Wojciech Małecki (Editor), Chris Voparil (Editor), Christopher Voparil (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108488457
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48845-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge