Richard Rorty : his philosophy under discussion

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Without doubt Richard Rorty is one of the most honored, famous and disputed philosophers of our days. All over the world interest in his inspiring and provoking thoughts goes beyond the circles of academic philosophy. The present volume includes "The Brain as Hardware, Culture as Software" and "Philosophy-Envy" of Richard Rorty, papers presented by students of the philosophy department at university of Münster and Rorty's responses to and comments on them. Rorty's lecture has been publicly presented at the 8. Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie on may 26th 2004. The students presented their intensively prepared papers on the following day. The volume gives an overview of the main topics of his philosophy as well as a detailed analysis of central concepts. >The papers are of very high quality indeed, and the level of discussion during the day I spent with the students was equally high. I have never, in any university, encountered students who combined such detailed knowledge of my writings with such penetrating criticisms of my views.< (Richard Rorty) Richard Rorty was born in New York in 1931. He completed his B. A. and M. A. in phi-losophy in Chicago and finished his Ph. D. at Yale. At Wellesley College he was Instructor and Assistant Professor (1958-61). He has been professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia and professor at Princeton. He currently teaches in the comparative literature de-partment at Stanford. His books include "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" (1980), "Con-sequences of Pragmatism" (1982), "Contingency Irony and Solidarity" (1989), "Philosophical Papers" vol. 1: "Objectivity, Relativism and Truth", vol. 2: "Essays on Heidegger and Others" (1991), and vol. 3: "Truth and Progress (1998), "Achieving Our Country" (1998), and "Phi-losophy and Social Hope" (1999)

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 3937202714 ; 9783110325317
• Dimensions: 21 cm
• Extent: 147 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Literaturangaben

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Philosophie
• Keyword: Rorty, Richard ; Philosophie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Frankfurt [Main i.e.] Heusenstamm, Paris, Ebikon, Lancaster, New Brunswick
• (who): Ontos-Verl.
• (when): 2005
• Contributor: Rorty, Richard ; Vieth, Andreas ; Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie (8 : 2004 : Münster (Westf))

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