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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991Edition: 1a. ed 20a. impDescription: 226 páginas; ImpresoContent type:
  • texto
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  • no mediado
Carrier type:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 978-0-521-35877-4
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 100 R787
Abstract: Acknowledgments. Introduction: Antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism. Part I: 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. Part II: Non-reductive physicalism. Pragmatism, Davidson and truth. Representation, social practise, and truth. Unfamiliar noises: Hesse and Davidson on metaphor. Part III: The priority of democracy to philosophy. Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism. On ethnocentrism: A reply to Clifford Geertz. Cosmopolitanism without emancipation: A response to Jean-François Lyotard. Index of namesAbstract: 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 virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
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Acknowledgments. Introduction: Antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism. Part I: 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. Part II: Non-reductive physicalism. Pragmatism, Davidson and truth. Representation, social practise, and truth. Unfamiliar noises: Hesse and Davidson on metaphor. Part III: The priority of democracy to philosophy. Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism. On ethnocentrism: A reply to Clifford Geertz. Cosmopolitanism without emancipation: A response to Jean-François Lyotard. Index of names

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 virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.

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