INQUIRY, CONVERSATION AND THEISTIC BELIEF: WILLIAM JAMES AND RICHARD RORTY GET RELIGION

Has Richard Rorty a moral philosophy?

در این مقاله سعی دارم نشان دهم که رورتی هرچند همانند کانت فیلسوف اخلاق محسوب نمی­شود، ولی با این حال فلسفۀ اخلاقی دارد که باید آن را جدی گرفت. رورتی به نحو نظام­مند با مسائل اخلاقی درگیر نمی­شود آنطور که فیلسوفان مدرن و معاصر درگیرند. این مقاله دو بخش دارد: بخش نخست با مبانی فلسفۀ رورتی مثل ضد ماهیت باوری، داروین­گرایی، فرویدگرایی و تاریخ­گرایی سروکار دارد. بخش دوم که تا حدودی مفصل است، بسیاری ...

Agents, Spectators, and Social Hope. Richard Rorty and American Intellectuals

Rorty wrote his Achieving Our Country as a philosopher, intellectual, academic and citizen, and each of these perspectives leads to a different emphasis in reading his book, and to a different story (and ‘storytelling’ is one of the themes of the book). The emergent pictures vary: the philosopher tells a story of the growing isolation and cultural sterility of analytic philosophy in the United ...

Religious Experience and the Divisible Self: William James (and Frederic Myers) as Theorist(s) of Religion

Journal of the American Academy of Religion June 2003, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 303–326 © 2003 The American Academy of Religion Scholars have understood William James’s unattributed reference to a discovery made in 1886, which he described as “the most important step forward in psychology since [he had] been a student of that science,” as a reference to the British psychical researcher Frederic Myer...

NOTICE : Richard Rorty : Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature :

Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition is published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted, © 2009, by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing fr...

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)