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Description: Life and work of 20th century American philosopher; by Bjørn Ramberg.
Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Sat Feb 3, 2001; substantive revision Sat Jun 16, 2007 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. The other is positive—an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. The centerpiece of Rorty's critique is the provocative account offered in
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