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Prado's The Limits of Pragmatism*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Martin Gerwin
Affiliation:
St. John's College, University of Manitoba

Extract

Carlos Prado has been much influenced by the thought of Richard Rorty, whose ideas have found application in Prado's earlier philosophical writings on the nature of fiction and on aging. In this book, Rorty's ideas are themselves the object of study. Prado is not attempting a complete examination of Rorty's work, and as a result, Rorty's relations to certain other philosophers he admires—earlier American pragmatists and contemporary uropean thinkers—are not explored to any great extent. The focus, instead, is on the theory of truth, on the issue of objectivity in science, and on Rorty's relation to Donald Davidson and other philosophers of the analytic tradition.

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1990

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References

Notes

1 Prado, C. G., Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984)Google Scholar, and Rethinking How We Age: A New View of the Aging Mind (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986).

2 Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).Google Scholar

3 Davidson, Donald, “A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge”, in Kant oder Hegel? edited by Henrich, Dieter (Stuttgart: Klett-Coda, 1983), p. 423Google Scholar. Davidson, 's essay has been reprinted in Truth andInterpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, edited by LePore, E. (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986)Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., p. 437.

5 Rorty, Richard, Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982)Google Scholar, Introduction, p. xxxvii.

6 Williams, Bernard, “Auto-da-Fe,” New York Review of Books, April 28, 1983, p. 34.Google Scholar