Talk:Richard Rorty

This page has problems

For a start there are some factual errors. I will get around to fixing it, but in the mean time don't believe it! (Eg. The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy was NOT in Consequences of Pragmatism; it was in Objectivity, Relativism and Truth).

Also it doesn't really explore many substantive points and arguments he has made over his long career.

Note on Dennett's Philosophical Lexicon

I have removed the following

In Daniel Dennett's humorous Philosophical Lexicon, 'Rorty' is defined as 'incorrigible', which sums up both Rorty's career and much of the philosophic community's reaction to it.

I have done so because in Rorty and His Critics, Dennett explicitly says this definition referred to Rorty's early discussion of the incorrigibility of first person accounts of the mental; it has nothing (or little, at least) to do with Dennett's opinion of Rorty's career. Interestingly Rorty has a full three separate entries in the Lexicon: a rortiori - for more fashionable, continental reasons; ameliorortate - to complicate the discussion by bringing in distinctions and observations made by philosophers in a neglected tradition (a reference to Rorty's injection of pragmatist and continentalist philosophical distinctions into mainstream analytical philosophy); and finally 'rort' - an incorrigible report (as above, alluding to his work on philosophy of mind), or a piece of fashionably confused nonsense. "Don't talk rort." ~~

References

"Reject" the "analytic tradition"?

I don't think he did. Rather, he thought the analytic style of philosophy had outlived most of its usefulness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by illuminatingvision (talk • contribs)

Picture

Looks as though someone uploaded another picture. I figured I'd post it here just in case anyone wants to put it into the article.

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Richard Rorty with Akbar Ganji.

Discrepancy in Son Jay's Birthdate

The article says Rorty's first child, James (Jay) was born in 1954. The OAC, Online Archive of California, states under the collection title Rorty (Richard) Papers that James/Jay was born in 1961. It's hard to believe that a male would bother to lie about his age, but this is something that should probably be checked out and, if necessary, corrected. After all, Richard Rorty has said that he suffered from OCD. He would want every detail of his article to be correct. Younggoldchip (talk) 16:55, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Why does this redirect from "reformist left"

Seriously, what's with this redirect? It's just one person, a non sequitur. 83.255.116.83 (talk) 22:35, 2 March 2024 (UTC)