Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical PapersCambridge University Press, 1991 - 226 páginas 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. |
Conteúdo
Solidarity or objectivity? | 21 |
Science as solidarity | 35 |
Is natural science a natural kind? | 46 |
Pragmatism without method | 63 |
Texts and lumps | 78 |
An antidualist account of interpretation | 93 |
Part II | 111 |
Nonreductive physicalism | 113 |
Representation social practise and truth | 151 |
Hesse and Davidson on metaphor | 162 |
Part III | 173 |
The priority of democracy to philosophy | 175 |
Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism | 197 |
A reply to Clifford Geertz | 203 |
A response to JeanFrancois Lyotard | 211 |
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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers Richard Rorty Prévia não disponível - 1990 |
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