Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers

Author/Contributor(s):	Rorty, Richard
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	11/30/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.