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Objectivity, relativism, and truth / Richard Rorty.
Van Pelt Library B945 .R52 1991 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rorty, Richard.
- Series:
- Rorty, Richard. Philosophical papers ; 1.
- Philosophical papers ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Truth.
- Objectivity.
- Relativity.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- 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 which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
- ISBN:
- 0521353696
- 0521358779
- OCLC:
- 22003895
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