Authors: Robert Brandom
ISBN-13: 9780631209829, ISBN-10: 0631209824
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: October 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
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."
Notes on Contributors | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Universality and Truth | 1 |
2 | Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn | 31 |
Response to Habermas | 56 | |
3 | Truth Rehabilitated | 65 |
Response to Davidson | 74 | |
4 | Richard Rorty on Reality and Justification | 81 |
Response to Putnam | 87 | |
5 | The Case for Rorts | 91 |
Response to Dennett | 101 | |
6 | Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity | 109 |
Response to McDowell | 123 | |
7 | Reading Rorty: Pragmatism and its Consequences | 129 |
Response to Bouveresse | 146 | |
8 | Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism | 156 |
Response to Brandom | 183 | |
9 | Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature | 191 |
Response to Williams | 213 | |
10 | What was Epistemology? | 220 |
Response to Allen | 236 | |
11 | Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry?: Rorty and Davidson on Truth | 242 |
Response to Bilgrami | 262 | |
12 | Freedom, Cruelty, and Truth: Rorty versus Orwell | 268 |
Response to Conant | 342 | |
13 | Post-ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty versus Davidson | 351 |
Response to Ramberg | 370 | |
Richard Rorty: Selected Publications | 378 | |
Index | 393 |