Pragmatists believe that philosophical inquiry must engage closely with practice to be useful and serves as a source of social norms. As growing alternative the analytic continental traditions, pragmatism is well suited for research in business ethics, but its role remains underappreciated. This article focuses on Richard Rorty, key figure pragmatist tradition. We read Rorty insight about ethic...

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 ...

Este presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar a crítica de Richard Rorty à filosofia representacionista, buscando apresentar uma resposta ao representacionismo. se opõe as ideias tradicionais em filosofia, oriundas tradição mentalista, descritas por meio dos conceitos “essência”, “natureza” e “fundamento”. Ao contrário deste vocabulário, ele apresenta ideia antirrepresentacionismo...

This paper describes contextual ethical views in life as far humans. The enforcement of justice demands term and conditions that allow its realization. Richard Rorty's idea an ironic liberal ethic may become embryo can structure shape part solidarity. guides a person not to absolute his views, but be open the truth from others. Freedom is upheld long it does cause cruelty others because worst t...

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...