That is, until Richard Rorty. In a series of books beginning with Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty has attained an astonishing degree of notoriety for a philosophy professor by consistently opposing what he calls "Pl...
These philosophers accomplished what Gustav Bergmann was to baptize ‘the linguistic turn’ in philosophy. They thought that it would be more fruitful, more likely to yield clear and convincing results, if philosophers were to discuss the structure of language rather than, as Locke and Kant had,...
理查德罗蒂:后现代主义中产阶级的自由主义Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism(by Richard Rorty).pdf,Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism Richard Rorty The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 80, No. 10, Part 1: Eightieth Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical
Rorty’s philosophical approach is problematic but its rudimentary nature makes it difficult to criticize. However, by contextualizing it we can show how shallow and disappointing his approach is. This is what I do in this essay. An ironist does not only watch irony emerging among his audience...
Rorty claims that what he calls the "liberal ironist" represents the truly modern person, one who is emancipated from traditional problems of truth, God, and natural law, and who continually remakes her or himself by adopting new metaphors for living. However, as I hope to show, in ...
But as we try to widen and make more consistent our description of what we see, as it gets wider and wider and we see a greater range of phenomena, the explanations become what we call laws instead of simple explanations. One odd characteristic is that they often seem to become more and...
Now we magnify the picture, so that every physicist can watch, atom by atom, to find out what happens irreversibly — where the laws of balance of forward and backward break down. So you start, and you look at the picture. You have atoms of two different kinds (it's ridiculous, but ...