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Authors: Robert Brandom
ISBN-13: 9780631209829, ISBN-10: 0631209824
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: October 2000
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Robert Brandom

Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. His 1977 Princeton PhD thesis on pragmatism and the philosophy of language was supervised by Richard Rorty. He is author of Making it Explicit (1994), an extension of his thesis.

Book Synopsis

Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been called "the most interesting philosopher alive."

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1Universality and Truth1
2Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn31
Response to Habermas56
3Truth Rehabilitated65
Response to Davidson74
4Richard Rorty on Reality and Justification81
Response to Putnam87
5The Case for Rorts91
Response to Dennett101
6Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity109
Response to McDowell123
7Reading Rorty: Pragmatism and its Consequences129
Response to Bouveresse146
8Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism156
Response to Brandom183
9Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature191
Response to Williams213
10What was Epistemology?220
Response to Allen236
11Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry?: Rorty and Davidson on Truth242
Response to Bilgrami262
12Freedom, Cruelty, and Truth: Rorty versus Orwell268
Response to Conant342
13Post-ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty versus Davidson351
Response to Ramberg370
Richard Rorty: Selected Publications378
Index393

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