Objectivism, Relativism and Truth - Philophical Papers, Volume 1

Klappentext This book is about antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism. This is the first volume of a collection of papers written between 1980 and 1989. The papers in this volume take up, for the most part, issues and figures within analytic philosophy. Those in the second volume deal mostly with issues arising out of the work of Heidegger, Derrida, and Foucault. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Richard Rorty, Richard (Stanford University Rorty
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.1991
• EAN: 9780521358774
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35877-4
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Richard Rorty: Philosophical Papers Set 4 Paperbacks; Philosophical Papers (Cambridg
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day