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

Extractions: 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.
Books & Authors - 98.04.23
Interview conducted in 1998 for The Atlantic by Scott Stossel. Focuses on his views of American leftism and E.O. Wilson.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980423.htm

Extractions: 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.
Richard Rorty's Platonists, Positivists, And Pragmatists
Position statement by richard rorty on contemporary philosophy.
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Extractions: Richard Rorty (1982) Source Consequences of Pragmatism , publ. University of Minnesota Press, 1982. Introduction reproduced here. 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
Walter Okshevsky - Richard Rorty On The Power Of Philosophical Reflection And Th
Essay by Walter Okshevsky. Reinterprets rorty's impact as continuing philosophical trends, rather than disrupting them.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/97_docs/okshevsky.html

Extractions: I NTRODUCTION In this essay, I want to provide a reading of Richard Rorty's pragmatism as a continuation, rather than a disruption, of the traditional philosophical project of identifying the moral and intellectual responsibilities of reason and of philosophy itself. My reading will identify a number of philosophical claims and arguments Rorty makes in his articulation of pragmatism as an "alternative account of the nature of moral and intellectual responsibility." This will involve reconstructing Rorty's account of what I will refer to as the "authentic" powers and limits of philosophical reflection. I take as my starting-point the ostensibly critical views which Rorty has expressed regarding the relationship between philosophy and education and I attempt to show along the way how Rorty's account of the self-responsibilities of philosophy comes to structure a particular answer to a problem of special moment to us today in the field of education: the nature and conditions of critical thinking as an educational ideal.
Richard Rorty The Public Philosopher
An article by Michael Albert. Critiques rorty from a leftist perspective.
http://www.zmag.org/rortyphil.htm

Extractions: 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?
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)
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Extractions: 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.
Talent For Bricolage, Interview With Richard Rorty
Read an interview with philosopher richard rorty, originally conducted by Joshua Knobe in 1995. Topics addressed include his early life and written works.
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THE DECLINE OF REDEMPTIVE TRUTH AND THE RISE OF LITERARY CULTURE
of perfection. They will have taken fully to heart the maxim thatit is the journey that matters. richard rorty. November 2, 2000.
http://www.stanford.edu/~rrorty/decline.htm

Extractions: THE DECLINE OF REDEMPTIVE TRUTH AND THE RISE OF A LITERARY CULTURE Questions such as Does truth exist? or Do you believe in truth? seem fatuous and pointless. Everybody knows that the difference between true and false beliefs is as important as that between nourishing and poisonous foods. Moreover, one of the principal achievements of recent analytic philosophy is to have shown that the ability to wield the concept of true belief is a necessary condition for being a user of language, and thus for being a rational agent. Nevertheless, the question Do you believe in truth or are you one of those frivolous postmodernists? is often the first one that journalists ask intellectuals whom they are assigned to interview. That question now plays the role previously played by the question Do you believe in God, or are you one of those dangerous atheists?. Literary types are frequently told that they do not love truth sufficiently. Such admonitions are delivered in the same tones in which their predecessors were reminded that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Richard Rorty -- Philosophy Books And Online Resources
20th Century Philosophy richard rorty find book reviews, essays by and aboutrichard rorty, American pragmatism, bibliographies, and more. richard rorty.
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Extractions: 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.
Dualism [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
Considers the world as two elemental categories which are incommensurable. Adherents include Descartes and the 20th century philosophers Gilbert Ryle and richard rorty.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dualism.htm

Extractions: The term "Dualism" was originally coined by Thomas Hyde around the beginning of the eighteenth century. As a metaphysical theory, dualism states that the world is made up of two elemental categories which are incommensurable. This includes distinctions between mind and body, good and evil, universal and particular, and phenomena and noumena. Dualism contends you must have both of the two components in question, rather than one or the other. In contrast to dualism two other philosophical positions concerned with the number of substances: monism and pluralism. Monism is the view that there is one elemental whereas pluralism maintains that there are many things which constitute the world. A major problem faced by dualists is the inability to resolve the rift created between the two opposing elements. Typically the motivation for resolving conflicts between these two realms is to make the world more understandable. For instance, how is the interaction between mind and body explained? Descartes, for example, claimed that the pineal gland is the point of contact between the bodily and spiritual realm. The inability to rectify these two realms has inclined some to adopt monism. Science, for example, offers a monistic account of reality (physicalism) which eliminates the mental altogether. removes any problems of relatedness between mind and body by eliminating the spritual all together. Mental events are reduced to brain states, thus leaving only the bodily realm, thus monism.
Academic Directories
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American Philosophy: West On Rorty
Philosophy 3387 American Philosophy Unit V Contemporary Pragmatism Cornel West on richard rorty 5 on rorty (pp. I. Background rorty's development as a pragmatist
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Extractions: A. Early essays (starting 1961): forecasts a revival of pragmatism; critiques reductionism and intuitionism (see description, p. 195) B. The Linguistic Turn C. "The World Well Lost" (1972): displays more of Rorty's matue style (see top of 197); argument is that appeals to the world, for settling disagreements about versions or theories, are viciously circular (see summary, bottom of 197) D. Rorty continued to write more on Dewey but he misreads Dewey and overplays certain aspects, such as Dewey's antiprofessionalism (198) II.
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Contents
A 1997 paper by Christopher Gohl. Challenges the value of rorty's philosophy for liberal thought.
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Rorty, Richard M.: Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies
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Extractions: Rorty, Richard M. Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies A Conversation with Richard Rorty . Edited by Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett. Distributed for the Prickly Paradigm Press. xii, 66 p. 4 1/2 x 7 2002 Paper $10.00 0-9717575-2-6 Fall 2002 Nystrom and Puckett's pamphlet gives us the most comprehensive picture available of Richard Rorty's political views. This is Rorty being avuncular, cranky, and straightforward: his arguments on patriotism, the political left, and philosophyas usual, unusualare worth pondering. This pamphlet will appeal to all those interested in Rorty's distinct brand of pragmatism and leftist politics in the United States. Subjects: The University of Chicago Press You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores . Outside the USA, consult our international information page File last modified on 3/10/2003. Questions about this title? email
Rorty, Richard M.: The Linguistic Turn
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Extractions: Rorty, Richard M. The Linguistic Turn Essays in Philosophical Method . viii, 408 p. 1967, 1992 LC: 91038851 Class: B840 Paper $23.00tx 0-226-72569-3 Spring 1992 The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since. "All too rarely an anthology is put together that reflects imagination, command, and comprehensiveness. Rorty's collection is just such a book." Review of Metaphysics Richard Rorty is University Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia. Subjects: The University of Chicago Press You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores . Outside the USA, consult our
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Rorty, Richard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. rorty, richard. 1931,American philosopher. b. New York City. After studying at the Univ.
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