num_pages: 238
description: In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
language: English
title: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
titlecomplete: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
genres: Essays, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 237
series: Philosophical Papers
publisher: Cambridge University Press