Rorty, Addams, and Social Hope

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 ...

Rorty and His Critics

Pragmatism and Liberalism between Dewey and Rorty

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Rorty, Williams, and Davidson: Skepticism and Metaepistemology

We revisit an important exchange on the problem of radical skepticism between Richard Rorty and Michael Williams. In his contribution to this exchange, Rorty defended the kind of transcendental approach to radical skepticism that is offered by Donald Davidson, in contrast to Williams’s Wittgenstein-inspired view. It is argued that the key to evaluating this debate is to understand the particula...

Knowledge, Morality and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky

ed from their fifth filter, namely anti-communism). Thus they discuss the way that news is filtered through (1) the ‘important common interests [that owners of major media share] with other major corporations, banks, and government’ (p. 14); (2) the need of the media to sell an audience to advertisers who are interested in ‘audiences with buying power’ (p. 16); (3) the dependence of media on go...