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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers
Richard Rorty
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Paperback. In this volume Richard Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity. Num Pages: 238 pages, 3 line diagrams. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in ... Read more
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521358774
SKU
V9780521358774
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Reviews for Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers
"This book is stimulating and challenging. The topics covered are diverse enough to capture the attention of almost any academic audience. Rorty introduces a variety of fresh and exciting ideas." Arnold Lorenzo Farr, disClosure