What is the point of such nonsense? Do you seriously believe that no one in the audience knew that Richard Rorty, America’s most celebrated philosopher, is a pragmatist? Or that they were ...

Richard Rorty was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, completed his graduate work at Yale, and taught at Princeton from 1961 until 1982. His first ground-breaking book, an attack on ...

This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade ... Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over ...

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers ...

A philosophy bachelors in which you'll evaluate complex problems, identify and examine underlying principles, investigate issues from diverse perspectives, and clearly communicate your point of view.

For a long time I was an earnest player in what Richard Rorty called the “America Sucks Sweepstakes ... The best is over.” As a philosopher and a Christian, it is particularly disconcerting to me how ...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition Richard Rorty When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it ...

The philosophy immersion provides students with an opportunity to study the nature, methods, problems, and achievements of philosophical inquiry. The immersion emphasizes the following goals: the ...

William James was acutely sensitive to both his own disabling pain and the wriggling ironies of his super-subtle family, who complicated any ideas he might profess about healthful and happy lives. In ...

Price’s four interlaced East Harlem protagonists are big-souled people navigating narrow, “negotiated life.” What they want ...

“A Question for Richard Rorty.” The Review of Politics Vol ... "Plato’s Paradox? Guardians and Philosopher Kings," American Political Science Review 84: 1317-1319. Duncan, Christopher M. 1991-1992.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy. I work mostly on John Dewey, the tradition of American pragmatism, democratic education, and other related ...