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Rorty's Pragmatism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

C. G. Prado
C. G. Prado
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Queen's University
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My objective here is to sketch a proposal against the many who insist on reading Rorty as arguing within traditional philosophy, in spite of his contentions to the contrary. I want to suggest that Rorty should be read as importantly outside the philosophical tradition and as an external critic. My proposal turns on roughing out how Rorty's brand of prag- matism differs from more familiar sorts.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 441 - 450
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1983

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References

1 Thayer, H. S., “Pragmatism”, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 6 (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 435.Google Scholar

2 Rorty, Richard, Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 1982), xivGoogle Scholar.

3 Ibid.

4 Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), 174Google Scholar.

5 Winter term, Princeton University, 1982.

6 I owe the example to Vinit Hacksar.

7 Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, xlii.

8 Ibid.

9 I owe the example to Henry Laycock.