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Truth and progress

Title
Truth and progress / Richard Rorty.
Author
Rorty, Richard
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Series Statement
  • Philosophical papers ; v. 3
  • Rorty, Richard. Philosophical papers ; v. 3.
Subject
  • Truth
  • Progress
  • Ethics
Note
  • Includes index.
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 McDowell's 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.
ISBN
0521553474 (hardbound)
LCCN
97037618
OCLC
  • 504204087
  • ocn504204087
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries