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	Richard Rorty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rorty combines pragmatism about truth and other matters with a Wittgensteinian philosophy of language which declares that meaning is a social-linguistic product, and sentences do not 'link up' with the world in a correspondence relation.
		Rorty often draws on a broad range of other philosophers to support his views; Dewey is his favourite, but he has also called upon Heidegger, Wittgenstein, James and Hegel at different times.
		Rorty considers himself to be a pragmatist, but some see his rejection of applying scientific method to the humanities as invalidating this claim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Rorty (1255 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Richard Rorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rorty matriculated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, and he spent his early career trying to reconcile his personal interests and beliefs with the Platonic search for Truth.
		Rorty combines pragmatism with a Wittgensteinian ontology that declares that meaning is a social-linguistic product, and sentences do not 'link up' with the world in a correspondence relation, a framework that allows him to question many of philosophy's most basic assumptions.
		Rorty argues for hermeneutics, the explaining of texts by other texts, rather than the search for an ultimate interpretation that would be validated by a higher force.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Richard_Rorty (738 words)

	SEP: Richard Rorty
		Rorty's romantic version of liberalism is expressed also in the distinction he draws between the private and the public.
		Rorty is critical of the role of argument in intellectual progress, and dismissive of the very idea of theories of truth, knowledge, rationality, and the like.
		Rorty made this point in a vocabulary that was developed by Anglo-American (whether by birth, naturalization, or late adoption) philosophers in the course of the preceding half-century.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/rorty (6093 words)

	Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi
		Rorty would suggest that such talk about principles is best forgotten or left to politicians to use in campaign speeches where we recognize the rhetoric for what it is. Let old men lament with each other about the illusions of their youth.
		Rorty suggests that the multiple communities he alluded to by talking of galleries, books, movies, concerts and science constitute an ecology of a free society where truth is more evident in the discourse among all communities, rather than inside any one of them.
		Rorty says that in losing faith in the cosmic structure, it "does not seem to us to entail that we face an abyss, but merely that we face a range of choices" about which actual communities to become involved in (Papers, 2: 132).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Sparta/6997/rorty.html (12067 words)

	Richard Rorty -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		Richard Rorty is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and the author of many books of philosophy, including Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; The Linguistic Turn - Essays in Philosophical Method; and Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Philosophical Papers), and more.
		Richard Rorty is not an unknown philosopher in Poland.
		A Response to Reich on Rorty" by Shirley Pendlebury
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/rorty_richard.htm (1580 words)

	Richard Rorty the Public Philosopher
		Richard Rorty denies that "the search for objective truth is a search for correspondence to reality and urge[s] that it be seen instead as a search for the widest possible intersubjective agreement." Bruno Latour is a famous French sociologist, highly admired by left academics in numerous countries, who takes Rorty seriously.
		Rorty explains why he thinks the poor and third world lack an understanding that unrelated humans deserve of moral respect: "This is not because they are insufficiently rational.
		For Rorty, presumably it would be because the South African fls have been highly educated and materially secure for a long time, thereby attaining a great moral sense, yet these fls have in fact endured unsafe conditions and mistreatment and intentionally inferior education for decades upon decades.
	www.zmag.org /rortyphil.htm (2126 words)

	The Coming Only is Sacred:Self-Creation and Social Solidarity in Richard Rorty’s Secular Eschatology
		Richard Rorty confesses that as a boy of 12 he knew the point of being human was to give one’s life to fight against social injustice.
		Richard Rorty writes that as he sees it, those bullies and bosses who try to drum gays out of the military or other spheres of public life in the name of family values are the same people who voted for Hitler in 1933.
		Rorty deconstructs this notion of correspondence or the mind as a “mirror of nature” in the work that first made his philosophy well known in intellectual circles beyond the professional guild of philosophers, especially in literary circles.
	www.crosscurrents.org /hollandwinter2004.htm (6540 words)

	Interview with Richard Rorty
		Rorty: No, I think it would probably be a good idea if everybody had to read Plato in their senior year of High School or their f~rst year of college; they'd be better informed about where their ideas were coming from.
		Rorty: I think that liberal education holds out examples of people who have done something startling and original and thus inspires people to think, "Gee, maybe I could do something startling and original too." But it isn't that one department rather than another is in charge of this activity.
		Rorty: Not their only importance, but if you ask why there's got to be a relatively autonomous discipline or subdiscipline, I think the ultimate answer is: because somebody's got to read these difficult books, and it takes a lot of time.
	www.unc.edu /~knobe/rorty.html (4361 words)

	Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth
		Rorty would, it appears, welcome the tendency in these cases to ignore the truth or falsity of what is under discussion in favor of deciding what best unifies one’s own.
		Rorty’s aim at solidarity as the end of inquiry may as well function as an analysis of falsity, or of how we ought not to settle upon a belief.
		Rorty does not claim that all societies are equal, so he might argue that since the physicians society is better, he ought to be listened to.
	www.leaderu.com /aip/docs/geuras.html (5180 words)

	Amazon.ca: Truth and Progress : Philosophical Papers: Books: Richard Rorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rorty contends that the ideas that reality has an intrinsic nature and that truth is a correspondence with reality are inherently flawed and therefore hinder inquiry, the former allegedly because "reality" is a matter of how we conceptualize things and the latter allegedly because there cannot be a theory of the nature of truth.
		Rorty talks about the "straw-man claim that there were no dinosaurs before we 'invented' them" (57), but on page 8 he claims that quarks are a "recent social construction." Few thinkers so eagerly invite straw-man attacks.
		Rorty thinks that he belongs to (in Kuhnian terms) normal, as opposed to radical, philosophy, that he carries out projects devised by the REAL geniuses, and otherwise marks time until the next genius (namely Derrida) begins to be understood.
	www.amazon.ca /Truth-Progress-Philosophical-Richard-Rorty/dp/0521556864 (2919 words)

	Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, and the Platonic Myth
		First, Rorty questions the usefulness of Nagel's argument that (1) science cannot reduce the first-person point of view to a physicalist third-person point of view and that (2) it cannot account for the intuitions left over after an analysis, for example, of moral judgement.
		If Rorty were an analytic philosopher, he might argue that Nagel's case, at best, is trivially true--like the analytic proposition "all bachelors are unmarried males," which is true, but hardly profound and hardly what pragmatists such as Rorty and Dewey see as being useful in a Baconian sense.
		Rorty's critique of intuitive realism, however, is only one part of a critique of what he calls the "Platonic myth." He places nearly every non-pragmatic philosophy--from Platonism to positivism--within this tradition and even places Kant and Plato, who had vastly different things to say about transcendental philosophy, within that tradition.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/billramey/rorty.htm (1593 words)

	Richard Rorty: Philosophy, politics don't mix: 4/01
		Rorty, who may be better known as America's most famous living philosopher, also is considered by many as the discipline's enfant terrible.
		In "Decline," Rorty argues that literary culture is replacing the study of scientistic philosophy, which seeks to provide redemptive truth through empirical science.
		Rorty argued that in Oscar Wilde's vision of utopia, which he also subscribes to, there is no dominant form of high culture.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/2001/april11/rorty-411.html (849 words)

	BookRags: Richard Rorty Biography
		As Rorty described himself, even after he outgrew Marxism, he felt a continuing tension between the literary and artistic cultivation of the self and the commitment to achieving social justice and articulating a conception of objective truth.
		Rorty's critical essays on these figures became one of the primary means by which Americans who wanted to understand the significance of critical theory, deconstruction, and post-Modernism could inform themselves.
		Rorty's anti-objectivist view concepts such as truth and knowledge stresses the importance of community perceptions of what is and the language used within that community to configure the world.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/richard-rorty (1149 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: Richard Rorty on Feminism
		Rorty is opening demanding territory, the relation of philosophy to moral and political transformation.
		Rorty is never a suitor, and he is not just a philosopher talking to women.
		When Rorty appears as a feminist rather than a man, he is pointing to a utopia in which anatomy really is not destiny.
	www.haberarts.com /rorty.htm (2341 words)

	Denis Dutton on Richard Rorty
		For Rorty, the history of science, politics, and morals is a history of successive redescriptions, and the more redescriptions and re-redescriptions we experience, the less hold any of them has on us.
		Rorty tells us that Derrida “simply drops theory — the attempt to see his predecessors steadily and whole — in favor of fantasizing about those predecessors, playing with them, giving free rein to the trains of associations they produce.
		Rorty goes on glibly to run the Newton/Aristotle distinction together in the same sentence with “the idiom of Blake versus that of Dryden” as a further example of a vocabulary choice the world won’t help us with.
	denisdutton.com /rorty_review.htm (885 words)

	Richard Rorty
		Pragmatists generally hold that the worth of an idea should be measured by its utility or efficacy in coping with a given problem, not by its correspondence to some antecedent 'Truth' or reality.
		In the early 1990s, Rorty became interested in philosophers in the continental philosophical tradition, such as Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Michael Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
		In Daniel Dennett's humorous Philosophical Lexicon, 'Rorty' is defined as 'incorrigible', which is a neat summing up both of Rorty's career and much of the philosophic community's reaction to it.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_rorty.html (877 words)

	Amazon.com: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity: Books: Richard Rorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rorty is sure enough about the facts of cruelty to write what he does, but that doesn't mean he or anyone else possesses moral certainty---to me "moral certainty" sounds like a dangerous quasi-religious idea.
		Rorty continues that objectivity is illusory, and that all things--language, selfhood, and community--are contingencies.
		Rorty's answer (which he takes to some extent from Sartre) is that it is literature (and the arts in general) which allow us to imagine the human context of ideas.
	www.amazon.com /Contingency-Irony-Solidarity-Richard-Rorty/dp/0521367816 (3176 words)

	Joho the Blog: Richard Rorty
		He recommendsd an article by Richard Rorty, "The Decline of Redemptive Truth and the Rise of a Literary Culture." Rorty is one of the few practicing philosophers who makes me wish that I had actually kept reading philosophy during The Great Forgetting (= the 17 years since I left academics).
		Rorty's pragmatism is itself highly pragmatic and not lost in theories of pragmatism.
		Richard Falk acted as raporteur for a huge project by the World Order Models Project and his language is peculiar by that fact; not disengaged or detached in any sort of pseudo-objectivity, yet sober and forthright.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/001089.html (2072 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
		Rorty says that they have largely forsaken the pursuit of economic equality in favor of an attempt to eradicate what he calls "sadism." By sadism he really means various forms of prejudice, or animus directed towards groups because of their ethnicity, race, sex, physical status, or sexual orientation.
		Rorty is right that Leftism is, at its quintessence, the pursuit of radical egalitarianism, the attempt to use the machinery of government to redistribute wealth in order that all men end up with an equal share of the economic pie.
		Richard Rorty has performed a real service in these pages, in summoning all of the factions of the Left back to their first principles, the achievement of a utopian America in which all men are not merely created equal but in which government guarantees that they end up equal.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/859 (3192 words)

	Richard Rorty and Brian Eno
		Rorty is critical in his book of this idea that Philosophy can somehow "fix" the conditions of knowledge in a way which is unaffected by social practices, or the games and vagaries of language itself.
		It should also come as no surprise that Rorty would claim that Philosophy (as practiced) may not be as useful for answering the questions of ordinary people as writers or poets or artists, who make it their business to wrestle with questions of contingency and the construction of meaning from objects at hand.
		It seems to me that there's a little problem with Rorty's view here (or something I don't fully understand) in the way he seems to depend on a pretty serious split between the public and the private that separates the language of concensus from the language of creation.
	music.hyperreal.org /artists/brian_eno/rorty.html (1023 words)

	Richard Rorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rorty has been professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia and professor at Princeton.
		Richard Rorty was born in 1931 to two writers in New York City.
		Rorty completed his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy in Chicago and finished his Ph.D. at Yale.
	www.westvalley.edu /ph/rorty.html (183 words)

	Richard Rorty: Internet Links
		Richard Rorty (1931-) is an American philosopher who was trained in the analytic tradition.
		Rorty argues that ever since Descartes' "invention of the mind" philosophy has attempted to provide rock solid foundations for our understanding of the World.
		For Rorty the aim of philosophers should be, "to help their readers, or society as a whole, break free from outworn vocabularies and attitudes, rather than to provide 'grounding' for the intuitions and customs of the present."
	www.dadamo.com /rorty.htm (266 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Richard Rorty
		Rorty, R. Comments on Dennett's 'How to study human consciousness empirically'.
		Rorty, R. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
		Rorty, R. Epistemological behaviorism and the de-transcendentalization of analytic philosophy.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/R/RortyR.html (78 words)

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