Richard Rorty - Wikipedia
WEBRichard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of ...
Richard Rorty - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBRichard Rorty (1931–2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative – a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy.
Richard Rorty | American Pragmatist, Philosopher & Educator
WEBRichard Rorty was an American pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual noted for his wide-ranging critique of the modern conception of philosophy as a quasi-scientific enterprise aimed at reaching certainty and objective truth.
Rorty, Richard | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBRichard Rorty was an important American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who blended expertise in philosophy and comparative literature into a perspective called “The New Pragmatism” or “neopragmatism.”
Richard Rorty, Philosopher, Dies at 75 - The New York Times
WEBJun 11, 2007 · Richard Rorty, whose inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers, died Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was...
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism - Harvard University Press
WEBAug 17, 2021 · Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate decades ago in his groundbreaking Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
Richard Rorty | Library of Living Philosophers | SIU
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Richard Rorty transformed the discipline of philosophy during the last quarter of the twentieth century, while setting it on a new path for the twenty-first. In epistemology, the philosophy of language, culture, value, and politics, the impact of his thought is impossible to measure.
Richard Rorty - Stanford University
WEBRichard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University, passed away on Friday, June 8, 2007, at home in Palo Alto.
Richard Rorty’s Intellectual Biography | SpringerLink
WEBJun 1, 2023 · Richard McKay Rorty was born on October 4, 1931 in New York City to James Rorty and Winifred Raushenbush, two journalists who were Trotskyists, or, more generally, social democrats, who were active in the lefty New York intellectual life of the 1940s and 1950s.
Rorty, Richard - Encyclopedia.com
WEBJun 8, 2018 · Richard Rorty was at his death a professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University and one of the most influential and controversial American philosophers of the twentieth century.
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