Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.

In the LRB Archive:

• How many grains make a heap?: After Kripke · 20 January 2005

  • Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century: Vol. I: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames
  • Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century: Vol. II: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames

• Post-Democracy: anti-terrorism and the national security state · 1 April 2004

• To the Sunlit Uplands: a reply to Bernard Williams · 31 October 2002

  • Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams

• Being that can be understood is language on H.-G. Gadamer · 16 March 2000

• Something to Steer by · 20 June 1996

  • John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism by Alan Ryan

• A Leg-Up for Oliver North · 20 October 1994

  • Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future by Richard Bernstein

• Why can’t a man be more like a woman, and other problems in moral philosophy · 24 February 1994

  • Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics by Annette Baier

• In a flattened world · 8 April 1993

  • The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor

• Blunder around for a while · 21 November 1991

  • Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

• Just one more species doing its best · 25 July 1991

  • The Later Works 1925-1953. Volume XVII: Miscellaneous Writings, 1885-1953 by John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston
  • Dewey by J.E. Tiles
  • John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook
  • Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford by Casey Blake

• Diary · 8 February 1990

• Posties · 3 September 1987

  • Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen by Jürgen Habermas

• The Contingency of Community · 24 July 1986

• The Contingency of Selfhood · 8 May 1986

• The Contingency of Language · 17 April 1986

• Life at the end of inquiry · 2 August 1984

  • Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers, Vol. III by Hilary Putnam

• What’s it all about? · 17 May 1984

  • Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind by John Searle

• Signposts along the way that Reason went · 16 February 1984

  • Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass

• Against Belatedness · 16 June 1983

  • The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg, translated by Robert Wallace

• Persuasive Philosophy · 20 May 1982

  • Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick

• Beyond Nietzsche and Marx · 19 February 1981

  • Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 by Michel Foucault, edited by Colin Gordon
  • Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth by Alan Sheridan
  • Herculine Barbin by Oscar Panizza and Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall

• Kripke versus Kant · 4 September 1980

  • Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke

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