On philosophy and philosophers : unpublished papers, 1960-2000
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On philosophy and philosophers : unpublished papers, 1960-2000
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. The first collection of new work to appear since his death in 2007, these previously unseen papers advance novel views on metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, philosophical semantics and the social role of philosophy, critically engaging canonical and contemporary figures from Plato and Kant to Kripke and Brandom. This book's diverse offerings, which include technical essays written for specialists and popular lectures, refine our understanding of Rorty's perspective and demonstrate the ongoing relevance of the iconoclastic American philosopher's ground-breaking thought. An introduction by the editors highlights the papers' original insights and contributions to contemporary debates.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Rorty as a Critical Philosopher Wojciech Malecki and Christopher Voparil
- Part I. Early Papers: 1. Philosophy as Ethics
- 2. Philosophy as Spectatorship and Participation
- 3. Kant as a Critical Philosopher
- 4. The Paradox of Definitism
- 5. Reductionism
- 6. Phenomenology, Linguistic Analysis, and Cartesianism: Comments on Ricoeur
- 7. The Incommunicability of 'Felt Qualities'
- 8. Kripke on Mind-Body Identity
- Part II. Later Papers: 9. Philosophy as Epistemology: Reply to Hacking and Kim
- 10. Naturalized Epistemology and Norms: Replies to Goldman and Fodor
- 11. The Objectivity of Values
- 12. What is Dead in Plato
- 13. The Current State of Philosophy in the U.S.
- 14. Brandom's Conversationalism: Davidson and Making It Explicit
- 15. Bald Naturalism and McDowell's Hylomorphism
- 16. Reductionist vs. Neo-Wittgensteinian Semantics
- 17. Remarks on Nishida and Nishitani.
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