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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Feb 3, 2001 · Richard Rorty (1931–2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative – a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy.
A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Richard Rorty, an influential American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Learn about his rejection of Platonism, his embrace of Pragmatism, his challenge to representationalism, and his vision of a secular humanist democracy.
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Apr 24, 2022 · Richard Rorty discusses his own postmodern conception of pragmatism, neopragmatism. This is a version of a re-upload. The clips all come from the documentary...
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Apr 25, 2024 · Richard Rorty was an American pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual noted for his wide-ranging critique of the modern conception of philosophy as a quasi-scientific enterprise aimed at reaching certainty and objective truth.
Jun 11, 2007 · Richard Rorty, whose inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers, died Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was...
Jun 1, 2023 · A chapter from a handbook that traces the main themes and influences of Rorty’s philosophy, from Platonism to post-philosophy, from irony to cosmopolitanism. The author argues that Rorty was a foxy hedgehog who pursued one vision of language and human purposes throughout his work.
