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Objectivity, relativism, and truth
In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virt...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1991
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| Colección: | Philosophical papers ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam024/90041632.html http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780521353694.pdf http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam024/90041632.html |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism
- Solidarity or objectivity?
- Science as solidarity
- Is natural science a natural kind?
- Pragmatism without method
- Texts and lumps
- Inquiry as recontextualization : an anti-dualist account of interpretation
- Non-reductive physicalism
- Pragmatism, Davidson and truth
- Representation, social practise, and truth
- Unfamiliar noises : Hesse and Davidson on metaphor
- The priority of democracy to philosophy
- Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism
- On ethnocentrism : a reply to Clifford Geertz
- Cosmopolitanism without emancipation : a response to Jean-Francois Lyotard.