About this book
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.
Subjects
Representation (Philosophy)ObjectivityRelativityPostmodernismTruthTheory of KnowledgePhilosophyV. 4. Philosophy as cultural politics