On philosophy and philosophers: unpublished papers, 1960-2000

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"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--

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Full title :On philosophy and philosophers : unpublished papers, 1960-2000 / Richard Rorty ; [edited by] W. P. Małecki, University of Wrocław, Poland, Christopher Voparil, Union Institute & University, Ohio.

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Publication Date:©2020

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Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

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Description:xii, 249 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9781108488457, 1108488455, 9781108726368, 1108726364
oclc:on1124590324
LC Classification:B945.R521
Dewey Decimal:191

IntroductionL Rorty as a critical philosopher / W. P. Malecki and Chris Voparil -- Philosophy as ethics -- Philosophy as spectatorship and participation -- Kant as a critical philosopher -- The paradox of definitism -- Reductionism -- Phenomenology, linguistic analysis, and Cartesianism: coomments on Ricoeur -- The incommunicability of "Felt Qualities" -- Krpke on mind-body identity -- Philosophy as epistemology: reply to Hacking and Kim -- Naturalized epistemology and norms: replies to Goldman and Fodor -- The objectivity of values -- What is dead in Plato -- The current state of philosophy in the United States -- Brandom's conversationalism: Davidson and Making it explicit -- Bald naturalism and McDowell's hylomorphism -- Reductionist vs Neo=Wittgensteinian Semantics -- Remarks on Nishida and Nishitani.