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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Rorty"”.
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Rorty, Davidson, and Metaphor
… 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 principles of …
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Re-reading Nāgārjuna with Resources from Richard Rorty
… 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 re-articulate these …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… 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 than …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… 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 than …
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
… 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 experimentation …
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Knowledge As Conversation: Richard Rorty and the Legacy of American Pragmatism
… 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 Dewey. …
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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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The Takeover by a Literary Culture: Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Literature
… 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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The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre
… 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 political …
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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 than …
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Reconstructing Science and Re-Imagining Our Conscious Mind: Putting Neuropragmatism to Work
… 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 neurophilosophical …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
… 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 requires …
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Recovering Richard Rorty's Sense of Experience
In this dissertation I critically examine Richard Rortys dismissal of the concept of experience following the linguistic turn. I challenge Rortys belief that all appeals to experience imply foundationalism and that we should focus only on language. In developing a non-foundational account of …
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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!
<p>My work explores the intricacies of Richard Rorty's theory of the self as it arises out his philosophy of language and then puts that theory into dialogue with the subject as imagined William Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>. More specifically, after giving a detailed account of Rorty's …
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Nietzsche's Notes, Nietzsche's Philosophy
… such thinkers as Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, and recent literary theory.
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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
… 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 are …
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Blake's Buildings: Poetry and the Reshaping of Epistemology
… William James and, more recently, Richard Rorty.
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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 einem …
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