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 ...
A philosopher who exerted influence on literature, law, religion, and politics Richard Rorty, the pragmatist philosopher who died this month at the age of 75, was by all accounts a soft-spoken and ...