Truth and progress
The essays in the volume engage the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers, including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Charles Taylor. The collection also touches on problems in contemporary feminism raised by Annette Baier, Marilyn Frye, and Catherine MacKinnon, and considers issues connected with human rights and cultural differences. Anyone with a serious interest in contemporary philos…
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- Full title :Truth and progress / Richard Rorty.
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The essays in the volume engage the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers, including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Charles Taylor. The collection also touches on problems in contemporary feminism raised by Annette Baier, Marilyn Frye, and Catherine MacKinnon, and considers issues connected with human rights and cultural differences. Anyone with a serious interest in contemporary philosophy and what it can do for us in the modern world will enjoy this invaluable collection.
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- Publication Date:©1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 355 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521553474, 9780521553476, 0521556864, 9780521556866
- oclc:ocm37509964
- LC Classification:BD171
- Dewey Decimal:191
Table of Contents
Truth and some philosophers -- Is truth a goal of inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright -- Hilary Putnam and the relativist menace -- John Searle on realism and relativism -- Charles Taylor on truth -- Daniel Dennett on intrinsicality -- Robert Brandom on social practices and representations -- The very idea of human answerability to the world : John McDowell's version of empiricism -- Antiskeptical weapons : Michael Williams versus Donald Davidson -- Moral Progress : toward more inclusive communities -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality -- Rationality and cultural difference -- Feminism and pragmatism -- The end of Leninism, Havel and social hope -- The role of philosophy in human progress -- The historiography of philosophy : four genres -- The contingency of philosophical problems : Michael Ayers on Locke -- Dewey between Hegel and Darwin -- Habermas, Derrida and the functions of philosophy -- Derrida and the philosophical tradition.
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