{"product_id":"objectivity-relativism-and-truth-philosophical-papers-paperback-9780521358774","title":"Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth; Philosophical Papers (Paperback) 9780521358774","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eObjectivity, Relativism, and Truth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePhilosophical Papers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this volume Richard Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Rorty (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521358774, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 November 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e238 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15 x 1.9 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book is stimulating and challenging.  The topics covered are diverse enough to capture the attention of almost any academic audience.  Rorty introduces a variety of fresh and exciting ideas.\"   Arnold Lorenzo Farr, disClosure\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRichard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Solidarity or Objectivity?: 1. Science as solidarity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Is natural science a natural kind?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pragmatism without method\u003cbr\u003e 4. Texts and lumps\u003cbr\u003e 5. Inquiry as recontextualization: an anti-dualist account of interpretation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Non-Reductive Physicalism: 5. Pragmatism, Davidson and truth\u003cbr\u003e 6. Representation, social practice, and truth\u003cbr\u003e 7. Unfamiliar noises: Hesse and Davidson on metaphor\u003cbr\u003e PART III. The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy: 8. Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism\u003cbr\u003e 9. On ethnocentrism: a reply to Clifford Geertz\u003cbr\u003e 10. Cosmopolitanism without emancipation: a response to Jean-Francois Lyotard\u003cbr\u003e Index of names.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45999550890264,"sku":"9780521358774","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521358774i_9a407868-abff-4ebc-bc5a-b51426fc925f.jpg?v=1691375666","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/objectivity-relativism-and-truth-philosophical-papers-paperback-9780521358774","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}