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Rorty’s Early Philosophical Papers (1955–1972)
The roots of Rorty’s mature philosophy are explored in a discussion of his early philosophical papers and reviews. His lifelong interest in...
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Rorty’s Early Philosophical Papers (1955–1972)
The roots of Rorty’s mature philosophy are explored in a discussion of his early philosophical papers and reviews. His lifelong interest in...
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Introduction
In this introductory chapter I introduce the idea of anti-representationalism as a counterpoint to the prevailing representationalism of modern and...
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The Translucency of the Real: Revisiting John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis
John Hick’s An Interpretation of Religion was first delivered as lectures over thirty years ago, yet it is still relevant as a comprehensive...
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Introduction to the Emergence of Money and the Formation of Worldviews
The chapters in this section examine whether or not, and if so how, people outside of Greco-European-Christian cultural traditions have used and...
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Inhuman Rationality: Speculative Realism, Normativity, and Praxis
This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual...
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The nature and significance of social ontology
We propose a bridge-builder perspective on social ontology. Our point of departure is that an important task of philosophy is to provide the bigger...
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Introduction
I introduce the key ideas of foundationalist, coherentist and pragmatist theories of knowledge. I then use these ideas as background for presenting...
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972–1980 (1982)
Consequences of Pragmatism markiert den Beginn von Rortys stilprägender und offensiver Selbstbeschreibung als Pragmatist in der Nachfolge Deweys und...
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Philosophy of Mind: Mind-Body Identity and Eliminative Materialism
A critical outline is given of Rorty’s early, “eliminativist” attempt to formulate a materialist version of the mind-body identity theory that does...
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Was Kant a Metaphysician?
Despite his reputation as the slayer of MetaphysicsMetaphysics, KantKant is closer to Metaphysics than he (and almost everyone else) thought. His...
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The unreality of words
Philosophers of language and linguists need to be wary of generalizing from too small a sample of natural languages. They also need to be wary of...
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The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism
How can the world as it appears to us, the world we live in, exist and best flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe? That is our...
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Spatial Representational Theories of Visual Perception
In this paper I argue that it is not just the distal objects of visual perception which are spatial in character but also the visual percepts per se...
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972–1980 (1982)
Consequences of Pragmatism markiert den Beginn von Rortys stilprägender und offensiver Selbstbeschreibung als Pragmatist in der Nachfolge Deweys und...
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Philosophy of Mind: Mind-Body Identity and Eliminative Materialism
A critical outline is given of Rorty’s early, “eliminativist” attempt to formulate a materialist version of the mind-body identity theory that does...
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Ruth Anna and Hilary Putnam
Ruth Anna Putnam was Philosopher of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Hilary Putnam was the Cogan University Professor at Harvard University. The...
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Husserl and the Pittsburgh School
The essay describes what might be called the “pragmatism idealism” of several Pittsburgh philosophers (Sellars, McDowell, Brandom, Rescher). It looks...
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Revisiting Grace de Laguna’s critiques of analytic philosophy and of pragmatism
I revisit my paper, ‘Grace de Laguna’s 1909 Critique of Analytic Philosophy’ and respond to the commentary on it. I respond to James Chase and Jack...
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Conclusion: The Place of Reason
That 'dazzling image' of science, applied to human beings, can seem to 'undermine' science by leaving no place for Reason. The conclusion here...