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Amazon.com ReviewThe philosopher's task, Richard Rorty writes, is "to clear the road for prophets and poets, to make intellectual life a bit simpler and safer for those who have visions of new communities." The essays collected in Truth and Progress show that Rorty is more than up to the challenge. His pragmatic approach is as well suited to brokering peace between "coworkers" Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida as it is to addressing more violent disputes. As Rorty sees it, part of the reason feminism has not been entirely successful in achieving its goals, or ethnic conflicts still rage around the globe, is that we still cling to the notion of an inherent human nature. "Plato set things up," he explains, "so that moral philosophers think they have failed unless they convince the rational egotist that he should not be an egotist--convince him by telling him about his true, unfortunately neglected self. But the rational egotist is not the problem. The problem is the gallant and honorable Serb who sees Muslims as circumcised dogs. It is the brave soldier and good comrade who loves and is loved by his mates, but who thinks of women as dangerous, malevolent whores and bitches." Instead of trying to answer the question, "What is human nature" Rorty proposes that we ask ourselves what we would like human nature to be, then make every possible effort to be that. In doing so, he does not reject previous philosophic inquiry, although he believes that philosophers must be willing to admit, as scientists do, when their predecessors got things wrong. If inquiry is the continual grappling with and resolution of problems, rather than a quest for "truth," the lessons learned from the past become invaluable tools to apply to new problems as they emerge. Many people disagree with Rorty's conclusions, but they all seem to agree that he has liberated philosophy from detached contemplation of "the real" and reconnected it to the world we live in. Truth and Progress does what all good philosophy should do: it makes you think. --Ron Hogan Papers - Marin Research Inc MARIN acknowledges its role in the sharing of maritime knowledge. We therefore offer a wide selection of papers in the field of hydrodynamics (if released for ... Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Supervenience This pair of worlds shows that A does not strongly supervene on B. And the principle of isolation cannot be applied to generate a counterexample to global supervenience. Relativism - Wikipedia Relativism is the concept that points of view have no absolute truth or validity within themselves but rather only relative subjective value according to ... Papers by David Lewis - Andrew M. Bailey Papers by David Lewis. T his is a collection of philosophical papers by David Kellogg Lewis. Eventually I hope to make it complete. Articles (1966) "An Argument for ... Metaphilosophy Contemporary Internet Encyclopedia of ... Contemporary Metaphilosophy. What is philosophy? What is philosophy for? How should philosophy be done? These are metaphilosophical questions metaphilosophy being ... Cognitive Relativism Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Cognitive Relativism. Cognitive relativism asserts the relativity of truth. Because of the close connections between the concept of truth and concepts such as ... Pragmatism - Wikipedia Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Charles Sanders Peirce generally considered to be its founder later described ... Theory Building in Qualitative Research: Reconsidering the ... Volume 14 No. 1 Art. 25 January 2013 Theory Building in Qualitative Research: Reconsidering the Problem of Induction . Pedro F. Bendassolli Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap David J. Chalmers Philosophy Program RSSS Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia. chalmers at anu dot edu dot au *[[Forthcoming in (T. Alter ... Progress (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Philosophical proponents of progress assert that the human condition has improved over the course of history and will continue to improve. Doctrines of progress first ...
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