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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Richard Rorty"”.
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Re-reading Nāgārjuna with Resources from Richard Rorty
… on the other, the Neo-Pragmatist philosopher, Richard Rorty (1931-2007). I highlight two core types of exegetical disagreement amongst Madhyamaka scholars in their philosophical readings of Nāgārjuna’s central texts (the *Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā* and the *Vigraha-vyāvartanī*), and I …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… Stow challenges the political character of Richard Rorty’s reading of Pale Fire. In this essay, I dispute Stow's criticism of Rorty. My basic argument is that literary criticism (or "readings") can be politically significant and that Rorty's acknowledgement of this fact ties him to rather …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… Stow challenges the political character of Richard Rorty’s reading of Pale Fire. In this essay, I dispute Stow's criticism of Rorty. My basic argument is that literary criticism (or "readings") can be politically significant and that Rorty's acknowledgement of this fact ties him to rather …
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
… points. This thesis looks to the recent work of Richard Rorty for a consistent formulation of pragmatism. Chapter 2 outlines the historical and philosophical background out of which Rorty's pragmatism grew. Peirce coined the word "pragmatism," and for him it meant an emphasis on the kind …
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Knowledge As Conversation: Richard Rorty and the Legacy of American Pragmatism
This thesis examines the place of philosopher Richard Rorty in the American pragmatist tradition. To locate him within this rich tradition, I outline the major tenets of classical pragmatism that constitute the core aims of the early pragmatists-Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John …
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FROM ‘WE REASONERS’ TO ‘WE SUFFERERS’: COMMUNITY AND LOYALTY FROM ROYCE, THROUGH SELLARS, TO RORTY
Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty form a loose intellectual tradition in their various presentations of moral community. Their influence on one another has been noted but not yet fully explored. This dissertation remedies that lack. It shows the dependence in addressing this topic of …
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Rorty, Davidson, and Metaphor
… literal meanings of the words contained in them. Richard Rorty claims that this view of metaphor can be used to argue that cultural, moral, and scientific change (all products of metaphor) are contingent. I will argue that Davidson's view of metaphor is not consistent with Davidson's overall …
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The redemptive imagination: The fiction of John Irving.
Using Richard Rorty's Contingency, Solidarity and Irony, John Barth's "The Literature of Replenishment," and Christian theology as frames of reference, this thesis argues that Irving recognizes the contingency of language systems which shape our personal and public networks of "beliefs, desires and …
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The dreamer awakes : semantic and metaphysical presuppositions in skepticism about knowledge of the external world
… An exchange between Susan Haack and Richard Rorty illustrates the situation of contemporary epistemology. For Michael Williams, the skeptic trades on presuppositions of traditional epistemology; we can avoid the skeptic by adopting contextualism. Williams is, in turn, countered by Ron …
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The construction and use of categories of Neolithic pottery from Wales
… based upon the ideas of Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Rorty. A discussion of the evidence for the Neolithic period in Wales is then followed by the application of this methodology to five regional study areas within Wales. Localised narratives about the construction and use of Neolithic pottery …
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Blake's Buildings: Poetry and the Reshaping of Epistemology
… Waldo Emerson, William James and, more recently, Richard Rorty.
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
… critical approach to literature based on Richard Rorty and John Dewey, focusing on the primacy of narration over argumentation, redescription and dialectic, the importance of texts as experiences, the end-products of textual experiences, and the role of critic as guide to experience rather …
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The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre
… philosophers Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, and Alasdair MacIntyre have been chosen for analysis as their work exhibits the most fundamental tensions within the postmodern stance, tensions which need to be delineated and examined for an appraisal of the future of postmodern …
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Reconstructing Science and Re-Imagining Our Conscious Mind: Putting Neuropragmatism to Work
… results in the neopragmatic relativism of Richard Rorty. I argue that there is another alternative by making use of John Dewey's philosophy of inquiry. The role of experimental inquiry is neglected by Rorty yet is central to Dewey's project of reconstruction, as opposed to the …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
… of religious in the name of democracy and Richard Rorty defense of it. It is hard to overestimate the influence of Stanley Hauerwas on American religious ethics in the era since Martin Luther King. This dissertation also shows that Hauerwas presumes that Rawls is right, that democracy …
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Sinnesreize, Sprache und Erfahrung : eine Studie zur Quineschen Erkenntnistheorie
… Argumenten kritisiert, insbesondere von Richard Rorty und Donald Davidson. Man warf Quine vor, er verwechsle die Beschreibung von Kausalmechanismen beim Entstehen von Urteilen mit Fragen nach deren Rechtfertigung, oder monierte, daß die Fundierung von Theorien durch Beobachtungssätze …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… Buch der Lieder we find ironic strategies that Richard Rorty subsumed into the concept of 'final vocabularies.' By acknowledging the formulaic nature of language in general and Romantic tropes in particular, Heine succeeds in subverting a heteronormative discourse on love and desire. Heine's …
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Embracing Ethical Life: Hegel on Freedom, Solidarity, and Law
… expressivist individualism associated with Richard Rorty is both incoherent on its own terms and more suitable for making sense of detached spectatorship than engaged membership. The final part of my defense of Hegelian freedom and ethical life is a response to criticism from Jean-Paul …
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The Takeover by a Literary Culture: Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Literature
… the work of the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty (1931-2007). While these notions are systematically significant in Rorty’s work, no thoroughgoing study of the literary aspect of his oeuvre exists. I undertake this study to understand why Rorty hoped ‘culture as a whole’ would be …
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Pragmatism and Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics
… found in the works of John Dewey, William James, Richard Rorty and Jane Addams; a view of meliorism that hearkens towards solidarity and not objectivity; one that is not only democratic, cognizant of contingencies and focused on habit, but also, by its insistence on viewing ourselves as members of …
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