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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Feb 3, 2001 · Richard 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 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.”
Apr 25, 2024 · Richard 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.
Jun 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...
Richard Rorty gives a talk on ethics and ethical principles at the Vancouver Institute in 1994. Note, the introduction to the speaker has been edited out and...
Richard Rorty (1931-2007) Alistair MacFarlane holds up a mirror to the life of the famous Pragmatist. When Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature was published in 1979, it took the world of philosophy by storm.
