Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Among his most influential books are Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989).
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityUniversity of Chicago
- Awards
- 🏆 Meister Eckhart Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 MacArthur Fellows Program🏆 Wilbur Cross Medal🏆 honorary doctor of Paris 8 University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Paul Weiss
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Robert Brandom
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"When the individual finds in her conscience beliefs that are relevant to public policy but incapable of the defense on the basis of beliefs common to her fellow citizens, she must sacrifice her consci…"
"Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual’s tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of hers…"
"From Richard McKeon and Robert Brumsbaugh I learned to view the history of philosophy as a series, not of alternative solutions to the same problems, but of quite different sets of problems. From Rudo…"
"As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increa…"
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