Research Catalog

Title

Truth and progress / Richard Rorty.

Author

Rorty, Richard.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

vii, 355 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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.

Series Statement

• Philosophical papers ; v. 3
• Rorty, Richard. Philosophical papers ; v. 3.

Subjects

• Truth
• Ethics
• Progress

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright -- 2. Hilary Putnam and the Relativist Menace -- 3. John Searle on Realism and Relativism -- 4. Charles Taylor on Truth -- 5. Daniel Dennett on Intrinsicality -- 6. Robert Brandom on Social Practices and Representations -- 7. The Very Idea of Human Answerability to the World: John McDowell's Version of Empiricism -- 8. Antiskeptical Weapons: Michael Williams versus Donald Davidson -- 9. Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality -- 10. Rationality and Cultural Difference -- 11. Feminism and Pragmatism -- 12. The End of Leninism, Havel, and Social Hope -- 13. The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres -- 14. The Contingency of Philosophical Problems: Michael Ayers on Locke -- 15. Dewey Between Hegel and Darwin -- 16. Habermas, Derrida, and the Functions of Philosophy -- 17. Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition.

ISBN

0521553474 (hardbound)

LCCN

97037618

OCLC

• 504204087
• ocn504204087

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries