“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
Richard McKay Rorty è stato un filosofo statunitense.
Ebbe una lunga carriera nel campo degli studi umanistici, filosofici e letterari. La sua variegata esperienza intellettuale lo avvicinò alla tradizione analitica che rigettò in una fase successiva.
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“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
Preface
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"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), p. 35
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"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
"John Searle on Realism and Relativism." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
“Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism,” Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Cambridge: 1991), p. 197
"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
"Richard Rorty Interviewed by Gideon Lewis-Kraus." The Believer, June 2003.
"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
Introduction to Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume I (1991).
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
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Kripke versus Kant. Lrb.com, september 1980.
"John Searle on Realism and Relativism." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
Origine: Response to Hartshorne in 'Rorty and Pragmatism, The Philosopher Responds to his Critics', p. 33