Truth and progress/

Main Author: Rorty, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University press, c1998
Series:Philosophical papers 3
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry? Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright
  • 2. Hilary Putnam and the Relativist Menace
  • 3. John Searle on Realism and Relativism
  • 4. Charles Taylor on Truth
  • 5. Daniel Dennett on Intrinsicality
  • 6. Robert Brandom on Social Practices and Representations
  • 7. The Very Idea of Human Answerability to the World: John McDowells Version of Empiricism
  • 8. Antiskeptical Weapons: Michael Williams versus Donald Davidson
  • 9. Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality
  • 10. Rationality and Cultural Difference
  • 11. Feminism and Pragmatism
  • 12. The End of Leninism, Havel, and Social Hope
  • 13. The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres
  • 14. The Contingency of Philosophical Problems: Michael Ayers on Locke
  • 15. Dewey Between Hegel and Darwin
  • 16. Habermas, Derrida, and the Functions of Philosophy
  • 17. Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition.