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Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty

Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty

Paperback

Logic

ISBN10: 9004387978
ISBN13: 9789004387973
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 21 2019
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This contingentism, with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and chance, depicts normativity as a practical human possibility rather than a metaphysical bottleneck which we must overcome at the cost of repudiating the concrete ways we grant epistemic and ethical meaning to our activities. The book is a critical survey of Rorty's philosophy, in light of contemporary theoretical debates around language, truth, justification, and naturalism, as well as his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within by using the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of both analytic philosophy and pragmatism.

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