Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Richard Rorty: Philosophical Papers Set 4 Paperbacks) (Volume 1)

Rorty, Richard

ISBN 10: 0521358779 / ISBN 13: 9780521358774

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990

Seller Inventory # E-9780521358774-2-2

Synopsis:

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.

From the Back Cover: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very good