When Richard Rorty turned 75 last October, no symposia, conferences, or Festschriften marked the occasion. Such academic nods require true-believing disciples. Philosophy as a discipline spawns them ...
Richard Rorty, the eminent public intellectual and Stanford University professor who resuscitated American pragmatism with groundbreaking work that urged philosophers to give up the illusory pursuit ...
Richard Rorty, the pragmatist philosopher who died last week at the age of 75, was by all accounts a soft-spoken and self-effacing man, but he generated more than his share of scholarly brawls. “It is ...