Richard Rortys pragmatisme.
I dette seminaret skal vi ta for oss Richard Rortys pragmatisme, slik den fremstår i debatter mellom Rorty og noen av hans kritikere. Hovedtekster blir essays fra:
Robert B. Brandom (ed.), Rorty and His Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Richard Rorty, Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers Volume 3. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
En god inngangsport til Rortys forfatterskap er:
Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
En oversiktsartikkel finnes her:
"Richard Rorty."
Flere kritiske essays med svar fra Rorty finnes i:
Herman J. Saatkamp, ed., Rorty and Pragmatism. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995.
Malachowsky, Alan R., ed., Reading Rorty. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991.
Andre viktige bøker av Richard Rorty:
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Consequences of Pragmatism. University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Collected Papers, Volume 1. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Collected Papers, Volume 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998.