Richard Rorty

INTRODUCTION: NO SINGLE VISION.

1. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS.

2. ACTOR AND MARTYR.

3. FAR, FAR AWAY….

CHAPTER 1: OUT OF MIND.

1. OUR RORTIAN ANCESTORS.

2. MATERIALISM AND THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM.

3. EXPLICATION, ELIMINATION, AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE.

CHAPTER 2: WHAT IS ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM?.

1. INTRODUCTION.

2. ANALYSIS, EXPLICATION AND ELIMINATION.

3. ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM.

4. INCORRIGIBILIY.

5. TROUBLES WITH ELIMINATISM.

6. FAR, FAR AWAY, LIES….

CHAPTER 3: RORTY’S KEHRE.

1. INTRODUCTION.

2. REALISM AND REFERENCE.

3. SCEPTICISM, RELATIVISM, TRUTH.

CHAPTER 4: OVERCOMING PHILOSOPHY.

1. AFTER PHILOSOPHY?.

2. THE LINGUISTIC TURN.

3. THE FUTURE OF PHILOSOPHY.

4. WHITHER EPISTEMOLOGY?.

5. THE REAPPEARING ‘WE’.

6. IN CONVERSATION.

CHAPTER 5: NEW SELVES FOR OLD.

1. FROM EPISTEMOLOGY TO POLITICS.

2. DEWEY’S REDESCRIPTION.

3. CONTINGENCY, IRONY AND SOLIDARITY.

4. METAPHORLOSOPHY.

5. TWO CONCEPTS OF FREEDOM.

6. LIBERALISM AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY.

7. THE LAST IRONIST.

CHAPTER 6: THE WHOLE TRUTH.

1. THE AUTHORITY OF NORMS.

2. THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE.

3. RELATIVISM REDUX.

4. TRIANGULATION.

CONCLUSION: THE ENDS OF PHILOSOPHY.

1. DOUBLE VISION.

2. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

3. THE ENDS OF PHILOSOPHY.

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