Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty (Central European Value Studies, Band 329) - Softcover

Calcaterra, Rosa Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004387978 ISBN 13: 9789004387973

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Richard Rorty's "neo-pragmatism" launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This "contingentism," with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and chance, depicts normativity as a practical human possibility rather than a metaphysical bottleneck which we must overcome at the cost of repudiating the concrete ways we grant epistemic and ethical meaning to our activities. The book is a critical survey of Rorty's philosophy, in light of contemporary theoretical debates around language, truth, justification, and naturalism, as well as his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within by using the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of both analytic philosophy and pragmatism.

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Rosa M. Calcaterra is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at University Roma Tre. She has edited various international collections and is the author of numerous essays or chapters of books and volumes, including Pragmatismo: i valori dell'esperienza. Letture di Peirce, James e Mead (2003) and Ideias concretas: Percursos na filosofia de John Dewey (2015).

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• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004387978
• ISBN 13: 9789004387973
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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