Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth

In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.

First sentence: There are two principal ways in which reflective human beings try, by placing their lives in a larger context, to give sense to those lives.

Year

1990

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

2

Pages

236

ISBN

9780521353694

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