Objectivity, relativism, and truth / Richard Rorty.

Author: Rorty, Richard.

Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Descriptionx, 226 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction : antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism -- Solidarity or objectivity? -- Science as solidarity -- Is natural science a natural kind? -- Pragmatism without method -- Texts and lumps -- Inquiry as recontextualization : an anti-dualist account of interpretation -- Non-reductive physicalism -- Pragmatism, Davidson and truth -- Representation, social practise, and truth -- Unfamiliar noises : Hesse and Davidson on metaphor -- The priority of democracy to philosophy -- Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism -- On ethnocentrism : a reply to Clifford Geertz -- Cosmopolitanism without emancipation : a response to Jean-Franois Lyotard.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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