Title: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
First published: November 30, 1990
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.
Subjects: Representation (Philosophy), Objectivity, Relativity, Postmodernism, Truth, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy, V. 4. Philosophy as cultural politics
LC classification: B945 .R52 1991 vol. 1, B945.R523 .R52 1991 vol. 1