This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which
Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three
previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth,
Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and Progress. Topics
discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture
over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in
intellectual and moral progress, the notion of 'moral identity', the
Wittgensteinian claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic
in nature, the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy, and the
mistaken idea that philosophers should find the 'place' of such things
as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles. The
papers form a rich and distinctive collection which will appeal to
anyone with a serious interest in philosophy and its relation to
culture.
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9780511267284
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2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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