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Richard Rorty: Philosophy by Other Means
Author(s) -
Margolis Joseph
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9973.00167
Subject(s) - pragmatism , quine , epistemology , philosophy , argumentative , argument (complex analysis) , abandonment (legal) , context (archaeology) , analytic philosophy , contemporary philosophy , political science , paleontology , chemistry , biochemistry , law , biology
Richard Rorty’s argumentative strategy – variously termed “pragmatist,”“postmodernist,” and “postphilosophical”– is examined in some detail in the context of his treatment of philosophical issues in general and of the views of other philosophers in particular, for instance, Putnam, Davidson, Quine, Sellars, Dennett, and Frazer. Attention is paid particularly to the compatibility between pragmatist, “analytic,” and postmodernist modes of argument; Rorty’s “redescriptions” of alternative philosophical views; and the philosophical import of Rorty’s “abandonment” of philosophical argument.