Fraught with Ought
Tim Crane
- BuyIn the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom
Harvard, 491 pp, £29.95, May 2007, ISBN 978 0 674 02498 4 - BuyWilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg
Oxford, 320 pp, £45.00, September 2007, ISBN 978 0 19 921455 6
When Richard Rorty died last year, the New York Times called him ‘one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers’. Few philosophers would accept this assessment. Rorty was widely read and admired by many, he had a good nose for a controversy and was impressive in oral debate. But his influence on philosophy has, so far, been minimal: Rorty’s unconvincing attempts to show that traditional philosophy has had its day have largely been ignored by philosophers. Outside the field, he’s the philosopher you can cite in your defence if you dislike traditional philosophy as much as he did.
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