Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Among his most influential books are ''Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature'' (1979), ''Consequences of Pragmatism'' (1982), and ''Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity'' (1989).Rorty rejected the long-held idea that correct internal representations of objects in the outside world are a necessary prerequisite for knowledge. Rorty argued instead that knowledge is an ''internal'' and ''linguistic'' affair; knowledge relates only to our own language. Rorty argues that language is made up of vocabularies that are temporary and historical, and concludes that "since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths." The acceptance of the preceding arguments leads to what Rorty calls "ironism"; a state of mind where people are completely aware that their knowledge is dependent on their time and place in history, and are therefore somewhat detached from their own beliefs. However, Rorty also argues that "a belief can still regulate action, can still be thought worth dying for, among people who are quite aware that this belief is caused by nothing deeper than contingent historical circumstance." Provided by Wikipedia
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Philosophy as poetry : Page-Barbour lectures for 2004 / by Rorty, Richard
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Philosophy and the mirror of nature / by Rorty, Richard
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Philosophy as poetry / by Rorty, Richard
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Una ética para laicos / by Rorty, Richard
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Philosophy and the mirror of nature / by Rorty, Richard
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Consequences of pragmatism : essays, 1972-1980 / by Rorty, Richard
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Contingency, irony, and solidarity / by Rorty, Richard
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Achieving our country : leftist thought in twentieth-century America / by Rorty, Richard
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The future of religion / by Rorty, Richard
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The linguistic turn; recent essays in philosophical method, by Rorty, Richard
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Mind, language, and metaphilosophy : early philosophical papers / by Rorty, Richard
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Objectivity, relativism, and truth / by Rorty, Richard
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Essays on Heidegger and others / by Rorty, Richard
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Truth and progress / by Rorty, Richard
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Philosophy as cultural politics / by Rorty, Richard
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Contingency, irony, and solidarity / by Rorty, Richard
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Mind, language, and metaphilosophy : early philosophical papers / by Rorty, Richard
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An ethics for today : finding common ground between philosophy and religion / by Rorty, Richard
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Contingency, irony, and solidarity / by Rorty, Richard
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