Richard Rorty (Hardcover)

Volume I: MIND, LANGUAGE, AND TRUTH

Richard Rorty

1. Obituary, The Times, 12 June 2007.

2. Stephen Metcalf, ‘Richard Rorty: What Made Him a Crucial American Philosopher?’, Washington Post, 18 June 2007.

3. Neil Gross, ‘Rorty Reexamined’, Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 2008), pp. 301?32.

4. Ermanno Bencivenga, ‘Rorty and I’, The Philosophical Forum, 1993, 24, 307-318.

Mind

5. James W. Cornman, ‘On the Elimination of "Sensations" and Sensations’, Review of Metaphysics, 1968, 22, 15?35.

6. William G. Lycan and George S. Pappas, ‘What is Eliminative Materialism?’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1972, 50, 149?59.

7. Eric Bush, ‘Rorty Revisited’, Philosophical Studies, 1974, 25, 33?42.

8. Philip Cam, ‘"Rorty Revisited", or "Rorty Revised?"’, Philosophical Studies, 1978, 33, 377?86.

9. David R. Hiley, ‘Is Eliminative Materialism Materialistic?’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1978, 38, 325?37.

10. Kenneth T. Gallagher, ‘Rorty’s Antipodeans: An Impossible Illustration?’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1985, 45, 449?55.

11. John Furlong, ‘Scientific Psychology as Hermeneutics? Rorty’s Philosophy of Mind’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1988, 48, 489?503.

12. Attila Karakus and Andreas Vieth, ‘Is Rorty’s Non-Reductive Naturalism Reductive?’, in Andreas Vieth (ed.), Richard Rorty: His Philosophy Under Discussion (Ontos Verlag, 2005), pp. 79?96.

Language

13. Michael Losonsky, ‘Reference and Rorty’s Veil’, Philosophical Studies, 1985, 47, 291?4.

14. Michael Devitt, ‘Rorty’s Mirrorless World’, Realism and Truth, 2nd edn. (Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 203?19.

15. David Houghton, ‘Rorty’s Talk-About’, in A. Malachowski (ed.), Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (and Beyond) (Blackwell, 1990), pp. 156?70.

16. Robert B. Brandom, ‘Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism’, in Robert B. Brandom (ed.), Rorty and his Critics (Blackwell, 2000), pp. 156?83.

Truth

17. Simon Blackburn, ‘Observation and Truth: From Locke to Rorty’, Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed (Allen Lane, 2005), pp. 139?71, 229?31.

18. Mark Okrent, ‘The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth’, Inquiry, 1993, 36, 381?404.

19. Paul Boghossian, ‘Epistemic Relativism Defended’ and ‘Epistemic Relativism Rejected’, Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 58?94.

20. D. Vaden House, ‘Without God or His Doubles?’, Without God or His Doubles: Realism, Relativism and Rorty (E. J. Brill, 1994), pp. 116?45.

21. Bernard Williams, ‘Accuracy: A Sense of Reality’, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (Princeton University Press, 2002), pp. 123?48, 294?6.

Volume II: METAPHILOSOPHY AND PRAGMATISM

Reviews of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

22. Quentin Skinner, ‘The End of Philosophy?’, New York Review of Books, 19 March 1981, 46?8.

23. Harry Ruja, ‘Review of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1981, 42, 299?300.

24. Chris Murphy, ‘Critical Notice of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1981, 59, 338?45.

25. Fred Dretske, ‘Review of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature’, International Studies in Philosophy, 1982, 14, 96?8.

26. Richard J. Bernstein, ‘Philosophy in the Conversation of Mankind’, Review of Metaphysics, 1979, 33, 745?75.

27. Ian Hacking, ‘Is the End in Sight for Epistemology?’, Journal of Philosophy, 1980, 77, 579?88.

28. Jaegwon Kim, ‘Rorty on the Possibility of Philosophy’, Journal of Philosophy, 1980, 77, 588?97.

Metaphilosophy

29. Alasdair MacIntyre, ‘Philosophy, the "Other" Disciplines, and their Histories: A Rejoinder to Richard Rorty’, Soundings, 1982, 65, 127?45.

30. David R. Hiley, ‘Edification and the End of Philosophy’, Philosophy in Question: Essays on a Pyrrhonian Theme (University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 143?73, 190?3.

31. Michael Williams, ‘Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature’, in Robert B. Brandom (ed.), Rorty and His Critics (Blackwell, 2000), pp. 191?213.

32. Michael Williams, ‘Rorty on Knowledge and Truth’, in Charles Guignon and David R. Hiley (eds.), Richard Rorty (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 61?80.

33. Ernest Sosa, ‘Serious Philosophy and Freedom of Spirit’, Journal of Philosophy, 1987, 84, 707?26.

34. Konstantin Kolenda, ‘Can Free Spirits be Serious?’, Southwest Philosophy Review, 1989, 5, 107?12.

35. D. Z. Phillips, ‘Reclaiming the Conversations of Mankind’, Philosophy, 1994, 69, 35?53.

36. Jakob Hohwy, ‘Quietism and Cognitive Command’, Philosophical Quarterly, 1997, 47, 495?500.

37. Gary B. Madison, ‘Philosophy Without Foundations’, Reason Papers, 1991, 16, 15?44.

38. Manuel Arriaga, ‘Richard Rorty’s Anti-Foundationalism and Traditional Philosophy’s Claim of Social Relevance’, International Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, 45, 467?82.

Pragmatism

39. Cornel West, ‘The Decline and Resurgence of American Pragmatism: W. V. Quine and Richard Rorty’, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), pp. 182?210, 265?9.

40. Robert Kirk, ‘Rorty’s "Postmodern" Pragmatism’, Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1999), pp. 134?43.

41. H. O. Mounce, ‘Rorty: Hermeneutics and Irony’, The Two Pragmatisms: From Peirce to Rorty (Routledge, 1997), pp. 193?209.

42. David Hall, ‘An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking’, Richard Rorty: Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism (SUNY Press, 1994), pp. 65?101, 253?9.

43. Ronald Dworkin, ‘Pragmatism, Right Answers, and True Banality’, in Michael Brint and William Weaver (eds.), Pragmatism in Law and Society (Westview Press, 1991), pp. 359?69, 382?3.

44. Susan Haack, ‘Vulgar Pragmatism: An Unedifying Prospect’, Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology, 2nd edn. (Prometheus Books, 2009), pp. 239?53, 295?6.

Volume III: PHILOSOPHERS

Davidson

45. John P. Murphy, ‘Post-Quinean Pragmatism’, Pragmatism: From Peirce to Davidson (Westview Press, 1990), pp. 95?116, 123?5, 132.

46. Maria Baghramian, ‘Rorty, Davidson and Truth’, Ratio, 1990, 3, 101?16.

47. Frank B. Farrell, Subjectivity, Realism and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 117?47.

48. Bjørn Ramberg, ‘Post-Ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty versus Davidson’, in Robert B. Brandom (ed.), Rorty and His Critics (Blackwell, 2000), pp. 351?70.

Dennett

49. Daniel C. Dennett, ‘Comments on Rorty’, Synthese, 1982, 53, 349?56.

50. Daniel C. Dennett, ‘Postmodernism and Truth’, in Daniel Dahlstrom (ed.), The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (Vol. 8: Contemporary Philosophy) (Philosophy Doc. Ctr., 2000), pp. 93?103.

Derrida

51. Simon Critchley, ‘Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?’, in Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Deconstruction and Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996), pp. 19?40.

52. Paul Trembath, ‘The Rhetoric of Philosophical "Writing": Emphatic Metaphors in Derrida and Rorty’, The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, 1989, 47, 169?73.

Dewey

53. James Gouinlock, ‘What is the Legacy of Instrumentalism? Rorty’s Interpretation of Dewey’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1990, 28, 251?69.

54. Richard Shusterman, ‘Pragmatism and Liberalism Between Dewey and Rorty’, Political Theory, 1994, 22, 391?412.

Gadamer

55. Georgia Warnke, ‘Hermeneutics and the "New Pragmatism"’, Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason (Polity Press, 1987), pp. 139?66, 194?7.

Habermas

56. Jurgen Habermas, ‘Coping with Contingencies: The Return of Historicism’, in Josef Niznik and John T. Sanders (eds.), Debating the State of Philosophy (Praeger, 1996), pp. 1?24, 29?30.

Hegel

57. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman, ‘Absolute Knowing and Liberal Irony: Hegel, Rorty, and the Criterion of Progress’, International Studies in Philosophy, 1999, 31, 139?53.

Heidegger

58. Charles B. Guignon, ‘On Saving Heidegger from Rorty’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1986, 46, 401?17.

Nietzsche

59. Daniel W. Conway, ‘Disembodied Perspectives: Nietzsche contra Rorty’, Nietzsche-Studien, 1992, 21, 281?9.

Peirce

60. Susan Haack, ‘"We Pragmatists …": Peirce and Rorty in Conversation’, Partisan Review, 1997, 64, 91?107.

Plato

61. William M. Goodman, ‘Theaetetus, Part II: A Dialogical Review’, Antioch Review, 1984, 42, 393?408.

Putnam

62. Hilary Putnam, ‘Realism with a Human Face, Part Two: Relativism’, Realism with a Human Face (Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 18?29, 323?4.

63. Hilary Putnam, ‘Truth, Activation Vectors and Possession Conditions for Concepts’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1992, 52, 431?8.

64. Paul D. Forster, ‘What is at Stake Between Rorty and Putnam?’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1992, 52, 585?603.

Wittgenstein

65. Greg Hill, ‘Solidarity, Objectivity, and the Human Form of Life: Wittgenstein vs. Rorty’, Critical Review, 1997, 11, 555?80.

66. Michael Peters, ‘Rorty, Wittgenstein, and Postmodernism: Neopragmatism and the Politics of the Ethnos’, in Michael Peters and James Marshall, Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy (Bergin and Garvey, 1999), pp. 133?51.

Volume IV: THEMES

Bioethics

67. John D. Arras, ‘Rorty’s Pragmatism and Bioethics’, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2003, 28, 597?613.

Chinese Philosophy

68. Kwang-Sae Lee, ‘Rorty and Chuang Tzu: Anti-Representationalism, Pluralism and Conversation (or Resonance of Pipings)’, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1996, 23, 175?92.

Environmental Philosophy

69. Andrew Light, ‘Materialists, Ontologists, and Environmental Pragmatists’, Social Theory and Practice, 1995, 21, 315?33.

70. Simon Hailwood, ‘Landscape, Nature, and Neopragmatism’, Environmental Ethics, 2007, 29, 131?49.

Ethnocentrism

71. Matthew Festenstein, ‘Ethnocentrism and Irony’, Pragmatism and Political Theory: From Dewey to Rorty (Polity Press, 1997), pp. 109?44, 216?24.

Feminism

72. Sabina Lovibond, ‘Feminism and Pragmatism: A Reply to Richard Rorty’, New Left Review, 1992, 193, 56?74.

Irony

73. Phillips E. Young, ‘The Irony of Ironic Liberalism’, International Studies in Philosophy, 1997, 29, 121?30.

74. John Horton, ‘Irony and Commitment: An Irreconcilable Dualism of Modernity’, in Matthew Festenstein and Simon Thompson (eds.), Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues (Polity Press, 2001), pp. 15?28.

Literature

75. Jon Stewart, ‘The Philosophical Curriculum and Literature Culture: A Response to Rorty’, Man and World, 1994, 27, 195?209.

76. Barbara McGuinness, ‘Rorty, Literary Narrative and Political Philosophy’, History of the Human Sciences, 1997, 10, 29?44.

Moral Philosophy

77. J. B. Schneewind, ‘What has Moral Philosophy Done for Us … Lately?’ (2009) (new for this collection).

78. Christian B. Miller, ‘Rorty and Moral Relativism’, European Journal of Philosophy, 2002, 10, 354?74.

Nihilism

79. Karen L. Carr, ‘Richard Rorty and the Dissolution of Crisis’, The Banalization of Nihilism: Twentieth-Century Responses to Meaninglessness (SUNY Press, 1992), pp. 85?116, 164?71.

80. M. A. Casey, ‘Rorty: The Post-Metaphysical Solution to Meaninglessness’, Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud, and Rorty (Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 77?113.

Politics

81. Alan Johnson, ‘The Politics of Richard Rorty’, New Politics, 2000, 29, 103?21.

82. Norman Geras, ‘Language, Truth and Justice’, Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty (Verso, 1995), pp. 107?47.

Religion

83. Nicolas H. Smith, ‘Rorty on Religion and Hope’, Inquiry, 2005, 48, 76?98.

84. James Flaherty, ‘Rorty, Religious Beliefs, and Pragmatism’, International Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, 45, 175?85.

Social Science

85. Ben Letson, ‘Richard Rorty and The Meaning of Social Science’, International Social Science Review, 1995, 70, 43?52.