21. Richard Rorty, Remembered. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine On June 8, 2007, American philosopher richard rorty died at the age of 75. rorty is now commonly associated with one of the roster of scare words used to http://www.slate.com/id/2168488/

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22. Richard M. Rorty, Distinguished Public Intellectual, Dead At 75 richard rorty, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford and public intellectual who is perhaps best known for revitalizing the http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/june13/rorty-061307.html

Skip to content Home News By Topic Business and Law ... How to subscribe Search Stanford Report, June 11, 2007 Richard M. Rorty, distinguished public intellectual, dead at 75 BY JOHN SANFORD L.A. Cicero Richard Rorty, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford and public intellectual who is perhaps best known for revitalizing the philosophical school of American pragmatism, died June 8 at his home on campus. Richard Rorty, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford and public intellectual who is perhaps best known for revitalizing the philosophical school of American pragmatism, died Friday, June 8, at his home on the university campus. He was 75. The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said. Rorty, who first came to the university as a fellow at the Humanities Center in 1996 and then joined the faculty of the Comparative Literature Department in 1998, is one of the most famous and widely read philosophers of the late 20th century. Among his peers, Rorty also was controversial. His notoriety stemmed largely from the challenges he mounted, beginning in the 1970s, against the idea of philosophy as a discipline that could discern general and timeless truths about the world. Attempts to do so, he asserted, were motivated by western philosophy's misguided reliance on Platonic metaphysics, the notion that there are underlying structures, realities or truths that stand firm against the vagaries of history and social mores. We have only a linguistic and causal relationship with the world, Rorty insisted. Hence any attempt to obtain some kind of transcendent, unmediated knowledge about it is futile.

23. EpistemeLinks: Website Results For Philosopher Richard Rorty General website search results for richard rorty including brief biographies, link resources, and more. Provided by EpistemeLinks. http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Rort

24. Books & Authors - 98.04.23 Interview conducted in 1998 for The Atlantic by Scott Stossel. Focuses on his views of American leftism and EO Wilson. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980423.htm

A conversation with Richard Rorty by Scott Stossel April 23, 1998 Richard Rorty, one of the most famous living philosophers in the United States, would seem an unlikely person to be exhorting the American Left to "kick the philosophy habit." And yet in his new book, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, that is exactly what Rorty does. Arguing that political liberalism in this country has been derailed by the abstract theoretical dithering of what he calls the Cultural Left Who cares what Lacan says about repression? What does Foucault's theory of knowledge have to do with diminishing wage inequality or broadening civil rights? Rorty calls for a more engaged Left dedicated to narrowing the wage gap, alleviating poverty, reducing social injustice, and pursuing other historically Progressive causes. Discuss this interview in the The Body Politic All for One, One for All (April 1998) Can science call the postmodernist bluff? Edward O. Wilson, the author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, says it can and must.

25. Richard Rorty, 1931-2007 richard rorty, the leading American philosopher and heir to the UPDATE Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht s reflections on richard rorty can be read here. http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=188

26. Richard Rorty The Public Philosopher An article by Michael Albert. Critiques rorty from a leftist perspective. http://www.zmag.org/rortyphil.htm

Richard Rorty the Public Philosopher by Michael Albert All Rorty quotations are from his book, Truth and Progress , Cambridge University Press, 1998. Truth What is truth? How do we arrive at it? Richard Rorty denies that "the search for objective truth is a search for correspondence to reality and urge[s] that it be seen instead as a search for the widest possible intersubjective agreement." Bruno Latour is a famous French sociologist, highly admired by left academics in numerous countries, who takes Rorty seriously. As Sokal and Bricmont relate in their revealing new book Intellectual Impostures , Latour rejects a claim by French Scientists working on the mummy of the Paraoh Ramses II, that Ramses died in roughly 1213 due to tuberculosis. Latour asks, "How could he pass away [in 1213] due to a bacillus discovered by Robert Koch in 1882?" In other words, in tune with Rorty Latour forgets about there being or not being a bacillus and wonders only when people intersubjectively about one, concluding that "before Koch, the bacillus has no real existence." What would Rorty reply? For that matter, how would Rorty distinguish claims by biologists working for Marlboro from claims by biologists seeking objectivity? And if true beliefs do not "correspond to the intrinsic nature of reality," but arise only from "intersubjective agreement," how does Rorty counter when the entire U.S. media says the U.S. bombed Vietnam to benefit the Vietnamese?

27. Richard Rorty’s Legacy OpenDemocracy The American philosopher typified and even perfected a form of exclusionary postmodern argument that depended on burying truth, says Roger Scruton. http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/people/richard_rorty_legacy

28. Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi 1995 essay by John Rothfork. Focuses on ethical and political aspects of rorty s work. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/6997/rorty.html

nau english rothfork publications Postmodern Ethics: The editors of the Southern Humanities Review honored this essay with the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for the best essay published by the journal in 1995. In this essay I hope to answer some of the charges made against postmodernism in general and against Richard Rorty's work in particular by critics who often feel caught in the position of being attracted by the philosophical allure of postmodern epistemology but angry at finding themselves on a slippery slope sliding towards what they fear is moral decay and intellectual anarchy. Christopher Norris' prolific work may speak for many who feel this way. In "Consensus 'Reality' and Manufactured Truth" ( Southern Humanities Review , 26.1; Winter, 1992), Norris excoriated the least restrained or most poetic member of the French postmodern contingent, Jean Baudrillard, for being so caught up in his enthusiasm for the simulated "realities" of computer "worlds" that he found it difficult to tell the difference between an arcade game, CNN programming, and the actual military event of the Persian Gulf War. The consequence was a loss of moral judgment. In "'New Times,' Postmodernism, and the Politics of Distraction" ( Southern Humanities Review , 26.3; Summer, 1992) Norris argued that postmodernism is a "convenient alibi for thinkers with a large (if unacknowledged) stake in the 'cultural logic of late capitalism'" (269). The suggestion is that moral judgment is subsumed by ideological rhetoric.

29. High Flyer: Richard Rorty Obituary | New Humanist richard rorty—the most influential American philosopher of the last three decades, who died in June—would undoubtedly have counted himself, http://newhumanist.org.uk/1440

Jump to content Jump to navigation Jump to search Articles ... Volume 122 Issue 4 July/August 2007 High Flyer: Richard Rorty obituary Danny Postel remembers the daring philosophy of Richard Rorty, who died in June 2007 Danny Postel final interview Though in a different key, Ronald Aronson recently advanced something like this argument in his front-cover essay for The Nation political ground they share with others, including even religious opponents of fundamentalism (of whom there are many as it happens), in defending the constitutional wall of separation. While this strategy sidesteps the directly intellectual Rorty on religion, atheism, secularism, and humanism Philosophy and Social Hope Journal of Religious Ethics , Volume 31, Number 1 (March 2003) The Future of Religion, edited by Santiago Zabala (2005) Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself Philosophy as Cultural Politics Danny Postel is the author of and is one of the contributors to the book Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty NB: This a longer version of the obituary which appears in the July/August issue of New Humanist. Its a web-exclusive Subjects: philosophy postmodernism Richard Rorty ^^ top ... Blog Search The magazine for free thinkers RA, One Gower Street, London WC1E 6HD. T:020 7436 1151. F:020 7079 3588.

30. Columbia News ::: Scholars Reexamine 'Varieties Of Religious Experience' In Cent richard rorty, professor of comparative literature at Stanford, said that James classic work presents clashing definitions of religious experience. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/02/richardRorty/

Current News News Archive Video Briefs Video Forums ... Home Page Columbia News Video Forum Richard Rorty Scholars Reexamine 'Varieties of Religious Experience' in Centennial Year During the Center for the Study of Science's March 24-25 conference, leading scholars reexamined William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience" on the centennial of its publication. Richard Rorty, professor of comparative literature at Stanford, said that James' classic work presents clashing definitions of religious experience. The conference, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation as part of the Templeton Research Lectures on the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion, is part of the Columbia Center's public program examining the boundaries between science and religion. A complete video record of the conference, including talks by Jerome Bruner, David Hollinger, Wayne Proudfoot and Ann Taves, will be available on the Center's website. Real (35:48) Video Related Links Center for the Study of Science and Religion John Templeton Foundation Published: Apr 18, 2002 Last modified:Wednesday, 18-Sep-2002 18:55:17 EDT

31. Richard Rorty, 75; Leading U.S. Pragmatist Philosopher - Washingtonpost.com richard rorty, 75, an intellectual whose often deeply unconventional approach to mainstream philosophic thought brought him wide public recognition as one http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001268.

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32. Fighting Terrorism With Democracy richard rorty, a professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University, is the author of numerous books, including Philosophy and the http://www.thenation.com/doc/20021021/rorty

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33. Walter Okshevsky - Richard Rorty On The Power Of Philosophical Reflection And Th Essay by Walter Okshevsky. Reinterprets rorty s impact as continuing philosophical trends, rather than disrupting them. http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/eps/PES-Yearbook/97_docs/okshevsky.html

Select - HOME 1992 Contents 1993 Contents 1994 Contents 1995 Contents 1996 Contents 1997 Contents 1998 Contents 1999 Contents 2000 Contents 2001 Contents 2002 Contents 2003 Contents Author Index PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1997 Richard Rorty on the Power of Philosophical Reflection and the Pragmatist Conception of Critical Thinking: A Redescription Walter Okshevsky Memorial University of Newfoundland I NTRODUCTION In this essay, I want to provide a reading of Richard Rorty's pragmatism as a continuation, rather than a disruption, of the traditional philosophical project of identifying the moral and intellectual responsibilities of reason and of philosophy itself. My reading will identify a number of philosophical claims and arguments Rorty makes in his articulation of pragmatism as an "alternative account of the nature of moral and intellectual responsibility." This will involve reconstructing Rorty's account of what I will refer to as the "authentic" powers and limits of philosophical reflection. I take as my starting-point the ostensibly critical views which Rorty has expressed regarding the relationship between philosophy and education and I attempt to show along the way how Rorty's account of the self-responsibilities of philosophy comes to structure a particular answer to a problem of special moment to us today in the field of education: the nature and conditions of critical thinking as an educational ideal.

34. Richard Rorty - Telegraph richard rorty, the American philosopher and social critic who died on Friday aged 75, was a highly influential figure in what came to be known as http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/11/db1101.xml

35. LRB · Richard Rorty: How Many Grains Make A Heap? richard rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n02/print/rort01_.html

Skip navigation HOME SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ... Richard Rorty screen layout tell a friend How many grains make a heap? Richard Rorty Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century: Vol. I: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames Buy this book Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century: Vol. II: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames Buy this book ‘I had hoped my department would hire somebody in the history of philosophy,’ my friend lamented, ‘but my colleagues decided that we needed somebody who was contributing to the literature on vagueness.’ ‘The literature on what ?’ I asked. ‘Dick,’ he replied, exasperated, ‘you’re really out of it. You don’t realise: vagueness is huge My friend’s judgment is confirmed by Scott Soames’s 900-page history of analytic philosophy. In an epilogue titled ‘The Era of Specialisation’, Soames cites ‘the investigation of vague predicates’ as an area of philosophical inquiry that has ‘exploded in the last thirty years’. The intensity with which such specialised inquiries are being pursued is, he says, indicative of the fact that ‘the discipline itself – philosophy as a whole – has become an aggregate of related but semi-independent investigations, very much like other academic disciplines.’ Soames welcomes this change. He ends his book by saying that ‘what seems to be the fragmentation in philosophy found at the end of the 20th century may be due to more than the institutional imperatives of specialisation and professionalisation. It may be inherent in the subject itself.’ Philosophers used to think that the point of their discipline was to attain a synoptic vision – to see how everything hangs together. But, Soames seems to suggest, they may finally be disabusing themselves of this millennia-long misunderstanding of their own enterprise.

36. The Coming Only Is Sacred:Self-Creation And Social Solidarity In Richard Rorty’ The recent work of philosopher richard rorty turns to the poetics of .. richard rorty’s most autobiographical essay is entitled, “Trotsky and Wild http://www.crosscurrents.org/hollandwinter2004.htm

THE COMING ONLY IS SACRED Self-Creation and Social Solidarity in Richard Rorty’s Secular Eschatology Scott Holland Beware then when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out on a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization. Generalization is always the influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles”

37. Eurozine - Richard Rorty - Samuel Abrahám Editorial For "Kritika & Kontext" 34 In May 2007, Kritika Kontext published an article by richard rorty originally delivered as a lecture in Tehran. Béla Egyed s response to it is published http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-08-07-abraham-en.html

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38. Haber's Art Reviews: Richard Rorty On Feminism richard rorty on feminism, from reviews by John Haber of New York City art and culture. http://www.haberarts.com/rorty.htm

Men and Utopias John Haber in New York City Richard Rorty on Feminism Philosophers are always telling people how they think and how to live. Now one of the best philosophers in America is lecturing women, and he thinks they should like it, too. Does that make philosophy, not to mention the male ego, sound more out of touch than ever? Richard Rorty has a provocative answer. Rorty is opening demanding territory, the relation of philosophy to moral and political transformation. He knows that it will not do to haul out the old logical machinery in answer. Instead, he offers philosophy's support for a specific social and political program, feminism . It is about time. In fact, whenever philosophy starts talking, Rorty argues, it is time to act. Along with him and Nancy Fraser, a feminist who refuses to take Rorty's yes for an answer, I want to look for the point at which the talking stops. Only it never will, and that is why men have a place in feminism. What's the good of pragmatism? Rorty has earned the right to throw his support around. Fifteen years before, he had practically remade the map of American philosophy. In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature he appeared at first only to be publicizing the work of two great living philosophers, W. V. O. Quine and Wilfred Sellars. He did much more: he also aligned their work with new and old traditions.

39. Richard Rorty - Independent Online Edition Obituaries richard rorty was perhaps the most eminent of his generation of American philosophers, certainly the best known worldwide, his work much translated, http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2646294.ece

40. Poetry richard rorty (19312007) was an American philosopher best known for revitalizing the school of American pragmatism. He served as a professor emeritus of http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/1107/comment_180185.html

November 2007 Buy This Issue >> Subscribe >> Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was an American philosopher best known for revitalizing the school of American pragmatism. He served as a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford and was the author of several books, including Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University Press, 1979). The Fire of Life by Richard Rorty In an essay called "Pragmatism and Romanticism" I tried to restate the argument of Shelley's "Defense of Poetry." At the heart of Romanticism, I said, was the claim that reason can only follow paths that the imagination has first broken. No words, no reasoning. No imagination, no new words. No such words, no moral or intellectual progress. I ended that essay by contrasting the poet's ability to give us a richer language with the philosopher's attempt to acquire non-linguistic access to the really real. Plato's dream of such access was itself a great poetic achievement. But by Shelley's time, I argued, it had been dreamt out. We are now more able than Plato was to acknowledge our finitude — to admit that we shall never be in touch with something greater than ourselves. We hope instead that human life here on earth will become richer as the centuries go by because the language used by our remote descendants will have more resources than ours did. Our vocabulary will stand to theirs as that of our primitive ancestors stands to ours. In that essay, as in previous writings, I used "poetry" in an extended sense. I stretched Harold Bloom's term "strong poet" to cover prose writers who had invented new language games for us to play — people like Plato, Newton, Marx, Darwin, and Freud as well as versifiers like Milton and Blake. These games might involve mathematical equations, or inductive arguments, or dramatic narratives, or (in the case of the versifiers) prosodic innovation. But the distinction between prose and verse was irrelevant to my philosophical purposes.

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