Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
Philosophical Papers
Volume 1:
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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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"This book is stimulating and challenging. The topics covered are diverse enough to capture the attention of almost any academic audience. Rorty introduces a variety of fresh and exciting ideas." Arnold Lorenzo Farr, disClosure
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November 1990Paperback
9780521358774
238 pages
227 × 150 × 19 mm
0.36kg
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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.
