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RICHARD RORTY (1931 - 2007)

CONFERENCES

• Thirty Years After: Richard Rorty and the Mirror of Nature, Royal Holloway College and Institute of Philosophy, University of London, November 6

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Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Philosophy of Richard Rorty.  Library of Living Philosophers.  Ed. Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn.  Chicago: Open Court, 2009.

  • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999. 

  • Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4.  2007.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3.  1998.

    • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Vol. 2.  1991.

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1.  1991.

  • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.

• Edited Works:

  • Philosophy in History.  Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

  • The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967.  Rpt. 1992.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • What's the Use of Truth?.  By Rorty and Pascal Engel.  New York: Columbia UP, 2007.

  • “Donald Davidson: In Memoriam.”  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14.3 (2006): .

  • “Looking back at ‘Literary Theory.’”  Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization.  Ed. Haun Saussy.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.  63-67.

  • “Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics?”  Business Ethics Quarterly 16.3 (2006): 369-380.

  • “Truth and Realism: Remarks at St. Andrews.”  Truth and Realism.  Ed. Patrick Greenough and Michael P. Lynch.  Oxford: Clarendon, 2006.  239-247.

  • The Future of Religion.  By Rorty and Gianni Vattimo.  Ed. Santiago Zabala.  New York: Columbia UP, 2005.

  • "Holism and Historicism."  2005.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  176-182.

  • "Naturalism and Quietism."  2005.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  147-159.

  • “Romantics, Sophists, and Systematic Philosophers.”  Metaphilosophy and Chinese Thought: Interpreting David Hall.  Ed. Ewing Chinn and Henry Rosemont, Jr.  New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2005.  3-19.

  • “The Brain as Hardware, Culture as Software.”  Inquiry 47.3 (2004): 219-235.

  • “Philosophy-Envy.”  Daedalus (Fall 2004): 18-24.

  • "Philosophy as a Transitional Genre."  Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard J. Bernstein.  Ed. Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.  1-28.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  89-104.

  • “Trapped between Kant and Dewey: the Current Situation of Moral Philosophy.”  New Essays on the History of Autonomy: a Collection Honoring J. B. Schneewind.  Ed. Natlies Brender and Larry Krasnoff.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.  195-214.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  183-201.

  • “Universalist Grandeur, Romantic Depth, Pragmatist Cunning.”  Diogenes 51 (2004): 129-141.

  • “Analytic and Conversational Philosophy.”  A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy.  Ed. C. G. Prado.  Amherst: Humanity Books, 2003.  17-31.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  120-129.

  • “Anti-Clericalism and Atheism.”  Religion after Metaphysics.  Ed. Mark Wrathall.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.  37-46.

  • "A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.”  The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental thought.  Ed. William Egginton and Mike Sandbothe.  New York: SUNY Press, 2003.  131-144.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  133-146.

  • “Comments on Pippin on James.”  Inquiry 45.3 (2002): 351–59.

  • “Cultural Politics and the Question of the Existence of God.”  Radical Interpretation in Religion.  Ed. Nancy Frankenberry, Nancy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  53-77.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  3-26.

  • “Hope and the Future.”  Peace Review 14.2 (2002): 149–55.

  • “The Continuity between the Enlightenment and ‘Postmodernism.’”  What’s Left of Enlightenment?  Ed. Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hannis Reill.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001.

  • “An Imaginative Philosopher: the Legacy of W. V. Quine.”  Chronicle of Higher Education February 2, 2001: B7-9.

  • “Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises.”  Telos 3.3 (2001): 243–63.

  • “Being that Can be Understood is Language: on Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Philosophical Conversation.”  London Review of Books 22. 6 (March 16, 2000): 23-25.

  • “Is 'Cultural Recognition' a Useful Concept for Leftist Politics?”  Critical Horizons 1.1 (2000): 7-20.

  • “Kuhn.”  A Companion to the Philosophy of Science.  Ed. W. H. Newton-Smith.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  203-206.

  • Philosophy and Social Hope.  New York: Penguin USA, 2000.

  • “The Overphilosophization of Politics.”  Constellations 7.1 (2000): 128–32.

  • “Pragmatism.”  The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 81. 4 (2000): 819-825.

  • “Comment on Robert Pippin's 'Naturalness and Mindedness: Hegel's Compatibilism.'”  European Journal of Philosophy 7.2 (1999): 213–16.

  • “Davidson’s Mental-Physical Distinction.”  The Philosophy of Donald Davidson.  Ed. Lewis Hahn.  La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1999.  575-594.

  • “Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes.”  Constellations 6.2 (1999): 216–21.

  • “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.”  Revue Internationale de Philosophie 53.207.1 (1999): 7-20.

  • “Rorty v. Searle, at Last: a Debate.”  By Rorty and John Searle.  Logos 2.3 (1999): 20–67.

  • Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

  • "Afterward: Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism."  1998. 

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  262-277.

  • "The Contingency of Philosophical Problems: Michael Ayers on Locke."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  274-289.

  • “Davidson between Wittgenstein and Tarski.”  Critica: revista hispanoamericana de filosofia 30.88 (1998): 49-71.

  • “McDowell, Davidson, and Spontaneity.”  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58.2 (1998): 389-394.

  • “Pragmatism.”  Routledge International Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Vol. 7.  London: Routledge, 1998.  632-640.

  • “Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism.”  The Revival of Pragmatism.  Ed. Morris Dickstein.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.  21-36.

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  27-41.

  • "Robert Brandom on Social Practices and Representation."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  122-137.

  • "The Very Idea of Human Answerability to the World: John McDowell's Version of Empiricism."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  138-152.

  • “Introduction.”  Wilfrid Sellars: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997.  1-12.

  • “Realism, Antirealism and Pragmatism: Comments on Alston, Chisholm, Davidson, Harman and Searle.”  Realism / Antirealism and Epistemology.  Ed. Christopher Kulp.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  149-171. 

  • "Thomas Kuhn, Rocks and the Laws of Physics."  Common Knowledge 6.1 (1997): .

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  175-189.

  • “What Do You Do When They Call You a ‘Relativist’?”  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57.1 (1997): 173-177.

  • “The Ambiguity of ‘Rationality.’”  Constellations 3.1 (1996): 73-82. 

  • “Duties to the Self and Others: Comments on a Paper by Alexander Nehamas.”  Salmagundi 111 (1996): 59-67.

  • “Emancipating our Culture: a Response to Habermas.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  24-30.

  • “Global Utopias, History and Philosophy.”  Cultural Pluralism, Identity, and Globalization.  Ed. Luiz Soares.  Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO/ISSC/EDUCAM, 1996.  457-469.

    • Rpt. as "Globalisation, the Politics of Identity and Social Hope."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  229-239.

  • “Justice as a Larger Loyalty.”  Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.  Ed. Ron Bontekoe and Marietta Stepaniants.  Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 1997.  9-22. 

    • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  42-55.

    • Cultural Pluralism, Identity, and Globalization.  Ed. Luiz Soares.  Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO/ISSC/EDUCAM, 1996.  

  • “The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature.”  Raritan 16.1 (1996): 8-17. 

    • Rpt. as an Appendix to Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

  • “On Moral Obligation, Truth and Common Sense.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  48-52.

  • “The Notion of Rationality.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  84-88. 

  • “Postmodernism and Antifoundationalism.”  Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in Political Thought.  Ed. David Morrice.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

  • “Pragmatism and Law: response to David Luban.” Cardozo Law Review 28.1 (1996): . 

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  104-113.

    • The Revival of Pragmatism.  Ed. Morris Dickstein.  Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998.  304-311.

  • “Relativism: Finding and Making.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  31-47.

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  xvi-xxxii.

  • “Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 17: 2 (1996), 121-140. 

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  148-167.

    • Cambridge Companion to William James.  Ed. Ruth-Anna Putnam.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.  84-102. 

    • Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion.  Ed. Charley D. Hardwick.  New York: Lang, 1997.

  • "Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes."  1998.

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  201-209.

  • “Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism.”  Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  Ed. Chantal Mouffe.  London: Routledge, 1996.  13-18.

  • “Response to Ernesto Laclau."   Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  Ed. Chantal Mouffe.  London: Routledge, 1996.  69-76.

  • “Response to Kolakowski."  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  58-66.

  • “Response to Simon Critchley.”  Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  Ed. Chantal Mouffe.  London: Routledge, 1996.  41-46.

  • John Dewey: an Intellectual Portrait.  By Rorty and Sidney Hook.  New York: Prometheus, 1995.

  • "Deconstructionist Theory."  From Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995. 

  • “Is Derrida a Quasi-Transcendental Philosopher?”  Contemporary Literature 36.1 (1995): 173–200.

    • Rpt. as "Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  327-350.

  • “Habermas, Derrida, and the Functions of Philosophy.”  Revue Internationale de Philosophie 49.4 (194) (1995): 437–60.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  307-326.

  • “Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry?  Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright.”  Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1995): 281–300.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  19-42.

  • "A Spectre is Haunting the Intellectuals: Derrida on Marx."  European Journal of Philosophy 3.3 (1995): 289-298.

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  210-222.

  • “Charles Taylor on Truth.”  Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: the Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question.  Ed. James Tully.  Cambridge: CUP, 1994.  20–36.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  84-97.

  • Hoffnung statt Erkentniss.  Vienna: Passagen, 1994.

    • "Truth Without Correspondence to Reality."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  23-46.

    • "A World Without Substances or Essences."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  47-71.

    • "Ethics Without Principles."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  72-90.

  • "John Searle on Realism and Relativism."  Academe 80 (1994): 52-63.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  63-83.

  • "Religion as a Conversation Stopper."  Common Knowledge 3.1 (1994): 1-6.

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  168-174.

  • "Hilary Putnam and the Relativist Menace.”  Journal of Philosophy 90 (1993): 443–461.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  43-62.

  • “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality.”  On Human Rights: the 1993 Oxford Amnesty Lectures.  Ed. Susan Hurley and Stephen Shute.  New York: Basic, 1993.  112–134.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  167-185.

  • "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids."  Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities.  Ed. Mark Edmundson.  New York: Viking, 1993.

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  3-20.

  • "The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation."  Interpretation and Overinterpretation.  By Rorty, Umberto Eco, Jonathan Culler, and Christina Brooke-Rose.  Ed. Stephano Collini.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992.  89-108.
    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  131-147.

  • "Rationality and Cultural Difference."  Philosophy East and West 42 (1992): 581-596. 

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  186-201.

  • “Feminism and Pragmatism.”  Michigan Quarterly Review (1991): 3–14.

    • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  202-227.

    • Tanner Lectures on Human Values.  Ed. Grethe B. Peterson.  Vol. 13.  Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1994.

  • "Heidegger, Contingency and Pragmatism."  Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  27-49. 

  • "Wittgenstein, Heidegger and the Reification of Language."  Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  50-65.

  • "The Banality of Pragmatism and the Poetry of Justice."  Southern California Law Review (1990): . 

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  93-103.

    • Pragmatism in Law and Society.  Ed. Michael Brint and William Weaver.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.  89-97.

  • "Another Possible World."  London Review of Books February 8, 1990.  21.

    • Rpt. as "On Heidegger's Nazism."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  190-197

  • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.  

  • "Is Derrida a Transcendental Philosopher?"  Yale Journal of Criticism (1989): . 

    • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  119-128.

  • "Education without Dogma."  Dissent (Spring 1989): 198-204. 

    • Rpt. as "Education as Socialisation and Individualisation."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  114-126.

  • "Heidegger, Kundera and Dickens."  Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  66-82.

  • "The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses."  ACLS Occasional Papers 10 (1989): 9-12

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  127-130.

  • "Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics."  The Institution of Philosophy.  Ed. Avner Cohen and Rudolph Burger.  La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1989.  138-149. 

    • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  9-26.

  • "Two Meanings of Logocentrism: a Reply to Norris."  Redrawing the Boundaries: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction and Literary Theory. Ed. Reed Way Dasenbrock.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.  204-216. 

    • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  107-118.

  • "Inquiry as Recontextualisation: an Anti-dualist Account of Interpretation."  1988. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  93-110.

  • "Is Natural Science a Natural Kind?"  Construction and Constraint: the Shaping of Scientific Rationality.  Ed. Ernan McMullin.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1988.  49-74. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  46-62.

  • "The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy."  The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.  Ed. Merrill Peterson and Robert Vaughan.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  257-288. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  175-196.

  • "Representation, Social Practice and Truth."  Philosophical Studies 54 (1988): 215-228. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  151-161.

  • "Non-Reductive Physicalism."  Theorie der Subjektivitat.  Ed. Konrad Cramer, et al.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987.  278-296. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  113-125.

  • "Science as Solidarity."  The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences.  ed. John S. Nelson, Alan Megill, and D. N. McCloskey.  Madison: U of Wisconsin, 1987. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  35-62.  

  • "Unfamiliar Noises: Hesse and Davidson on Metaphor."  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 61 (1987): 283-296. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  162-172.

  • "The Contingency of Language."  London Review of Books April 17 (1986): 3-6. 

    • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  3-22.

  • "The Contingency of Selfhood."  London Review of Books May 8 (1986): 11-14. 

    • Rpt. in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  23-43.

  • "The Contingency of Community."  London Review of Books July 24 (1986): 10-14. 

    • Rpt. as "The Contingency of a Liberal Community."  in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  44-69.

  • "On Ethnocentrism: a Reply to Clifford Geertz."  Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 525-534.

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  203-210.

  • "Foucault and Epistemology."  Foucault: a Critical Reader.  Ed. D. C. Hoy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.  41-49.

  • "Pragmatism, Davidson and Truth."  Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson.  Ed. Ernest LePore.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.  333-355. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  126-150.

  • "Philosophy Without Principles."  Critical Inquiry 11 (1985): 132-138.

  • "Texts and Lumps." New Literary History 17 (1985): 1-15. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  78-92.

  • "Deconstruction and Circumvention."  Critical Inquiry 11 (1984): 1-23. 

    • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  85-106.

  • "The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres."  Philosophy in History.  Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.  49-75.

  • "Introduction."  By Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Philosophy in History.  Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

  • "Solidarity or Objectivity?"  Nanzan Review of American Studies 6 (1984): 1-19. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  21-24.

    • Post-Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West.  New York: Columbia UP, 1985.  3-19. 

  • "Pragmatism Without Method."  Sidney Hook: Philosopher of Democracy and Humanism.  Ed. Paul Kurtz.  Buffalo: Prometheus, 1983.  259-273. 

    • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  63-77.

  • "Contemporary Philosophy of Mind."  Synthese 53 (1982): 323-348.  

  • "Introduction: Pragmatism and Philosophy."  Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  xiii-xlvii. 

    • "Pragmatism and Philosophy."  After Philosophy.  Ed. K. Bayles, J. Bohman, and T. McCarthy.  1987.

  • "Philosophy in America Today."  The American Scholar (1982): . 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  211-230.

  • "Method, Social Science and Social Hope."  Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (1981): 569-588. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  191-210.

  • "Nineteenth Century Idealism and Twentieth Century Textualism."  The Monist 64 (1981): 155-174. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  139-159.

  • "Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism."  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 53 (1980): 719-738. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  160-175.

  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.  2nd Ed. 2009.

  • "Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: an Essay on Derrida."  New Literary History 10 (1978-1979): 141-160. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  90-109.

  • "From Epistemology to Hermeneutics."  Acta Philosophica Fennica 30 (1978): 11-30. 

    • Philosophy and the Mirror of Human Nature.  Ch. 7. 

  • "Dewey's Metaphysics."  New Studies in the Philosophy of John Dewey.  Ed. Steven Cahn.  Hanover: U of New England P, 1977. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  72-89.

  • "Professionalised Philosophy and Transcendentalist Culture."  Georgia Review 30 (1976): 757-769. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  60-71.

  • "Overcoming the Tradition: Heidegger and Dewey."  Review of Metaphysics 30 (1976): 280-305. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  37-59.

  • "Keeping Philosophy Pure: an Essay on Wittgenstein."  Yale Review 65 (1976): 336-356. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  19-36.

  • "The World Well Lost."  Journal of Philosophy 49 (1972): 649-665. 

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  3-18.

  • "In Defence of Eliminative Materialism."  Review of Metaphysics 24 (1970): 112-121.

  • "Introduction: Metaphilosophical Difficulties of Linguistic Philosophy."  The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967.  Rpt. 1992.  1-39.

• Selected Interviews:

  • Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty.  Ed. Eduardo Mendieta.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005.

  • Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: a Conversation with Richard Rorty.  By Rorty, Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett.  Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2002.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Arthur Fine and Anti-Representationalist Philosophy (?)

  • Democracy and Philosophy Kritika & Kontext 33 (2007) (and A Rejoinder to Béla Egyed [see below] Kritika & Kontext 34 [2007])

  • The Fire of Life Poetry (November 2007)

  • Naturalism and Quietism (University of Oslo) (2005)

  • Putnam, Pragmatism and Parmenides (University of Oslo) (2005)

  • How Many Grains Make a Heap London Review of Books January 20, 2005

  • Philosophical Convictions: Review of The Seduction of Unreason: the Intellectual Romance With Fascism From Nietzsche to Postmodernism, by Richard Wolin.  The Nation June 14, 2004

  • Philosophy as a Transitional Genre (MIT) (2004):

    • Alternative Source: The Decline of Redemptive Truth and the Rise of a Literary Culture

  • Universalist Grandeur, Romantic Profundity, Humanist Finitude (2004)

  • Review of Pascal Engel's Truth Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews March 13, 2003

  • Analytic and Conversational Philosophy (2002)

  • To the Sunlit Uplands London Review of Books October 31, 2002

  • Fighting Terrorism With Democracy The Nation October 21, 2002

  • Achieving our Country (1998):

    • The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature (pp. 125-140)

  • Analytic and Transformative Philosophy (Athenaeum Library) (1999)

  • A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Philosophy (Athenaeum Library) (1999 / 2004)

  • Moral Universalism and Economic Triage UNESCO Forum (1996)

  • "Deconstructionist Theory" (1995):

    • Middle East Interest Version

    • Stanford Presidential Lecture Series Version

  • Ethics without Principles (Eldridge) (1994)

  • "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids" (1993):

    • Athenaeum Version

    • Eldridge Version

  • Education as Socialization and as Individualization (1989)

  • The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses (1989) Rpt. Kritikos 3 (2006)

  • Consequences of Pragmatism (1982):

    • Introduction: Platonists, Positivists, and Pragmatists (Marxists.Org)

• Selected Interviews:

  • Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies (Interview with Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett) (2002)

  • Interview with Mario Wenning, et al. Gnosis 8.1

  • Without Illusion, but with Conviction (Interview with Samuel Abrahám) Kritika & Kontext March 24, 1999

  • A Talent for Bricolage: Interview with Richard Rorty by Joshua Knobe Dualist 2 (1995): 59-71

  • Interview with Josefina Ayerza Perfume (1993)

   

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Brandom, Robert, ed.  Rorty and his Critics.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

  • Festenstein, Matthew, and Simon Thompson, eds.  Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues.  Cambridge: Polity, 2002.

  • Guignon, Charles, and David Hiley, eds.  Richard Rorty.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

  • Hardwick, Charles, and Don Crosby, eds.  Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty.  London: Peter Lang, 1997.

  • Huang, Yong, ed.  Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism, with Responses by Richard Rorty.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.

  • Langsdorf, Lenore, and Andrew R. Smith, eds.  Recovering Pragmatism's Voice: the Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.

  • Peters, Michael, et al., eds.  Richard Rorty.  Lansing, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

  • Pettigrew, John, ed.  A Pragmatist's Progress?  Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

  • Rumana, Richard, ed.  On Rorty.  Belmont: Wadsworth, 1999.

  • Saatkamp, Herman J., Jr., ed.  Rorty and Pragmatism: the Philosopher Responds to his Critics.  Memphis: Vanderbilt UP, 1995.

  • Tartaglia, James, ed.  Richard Rorty.  4 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2009.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Calder, Gideon.  Richard Rorty.  London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003.

  • Dann, G. Elijah.  After Rorty: the Possibilities for Ethics and Religious Belief.  London: Continuum, 2006.

  • Fabbri, Lorenzo.  The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction.  London: Continuum, 2008.

  • Fish, Stanley.  "Almost Pragmatism: the Jurisprudence of Richard Posner, Richard Rorty and Donald Dworkin."  Pragmatism in Law and Society.  Ed. Michael Brint.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.

    • There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  200-230.

  • Forster,Paul D. "Pragmatism, Relativism and the Critique of Philosophy."  Metaphilosophy 29.1-2 (1998): 58-78.

  • Frazier, Brad.  Rorty and Kierkegaard on Irony and Moral Commitment: Philosophical and Theological Connections.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

  • Gander, Eric M.  The Last Conceptual Revolution: a Critique of Richard Rorty's Political Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

  • Gascoigne, Neil.  Richard Rorty: Saint and Martyr.  Cambridge: Polity, 2005. 

  • Geras, Norman.  Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: the Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty.  London: Verso, 1996.

  • Grippe, Edward.  Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism: Neither Liberal Nor Free.  London: Continuum, 2007.

  • Gross, Neil.  Richard Rorty: the Making of an American Philosopher, 1931-1982.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.

  • Hall, David.  Richard Rorty: Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.

  • House, D. Vaden.  Without God or His Doubles: Realism, Relativism and Rorty.  Leiden: Brill, 1994.

  • Kim, Jaegwon.  "Rorty on the Possibility of Philosophy."  Journal of Philosophy (1980): 588-597.

  • Kolenda, Konstantin.  Rorty's Humanistic Pragmaticism.  Tampa, Florida: U of South Florida P, 1990.

  • Kuipers, Ronald Alexander.  Solidarity and the Stranger: Themes in the Social Philosophy of Richard Rorty.  Washington: UP of America, 1997.

  • Letson, Brian H.  Davidson's Theory of Truth and Its Implications for Rorty's Pragmatism.  London: Peter Lang, 1997.

  • Malachowski, Alan.  Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Beyond.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

  • Malachowski, Alan.  Richard Rorty.  Princeton: Princeton UP; Chesham: Acumen, 2002.

  • Melkonian, Markar.  Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century.  New York: Humanity, 1999.

  • Nielsen, Kai.  After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy.  Boulder: Westview, 1991.

  • Rothleder, Diane.  The Work of Friendship: Rorty, his Critics, and the Project of Solidarity.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

  • Snell, R. J.  Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-Eye View.  Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 2006.

  • Tolland, Anders.  Epistemological Relativism and Relativistic Epistemology: Richard Rorty and the Possibility of a Philosophical Theory of Knowledge.  Coronet Books, 1991.

  • Voparil, Christopher J.  Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

  • Zhang, Wei.  Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers: a Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.

On-Line:

• Obituaries:

  • Abrahám, Samuel: Richard Rorty Kritika & Kontext 34 (2007)

  • Achenbach, Joel: Richard Rorty

  • Byrne, Richard: Richard Rorty, Popular Philosopher and Champion of Pragmatism, is Dead at 75 Chronicle Daily News Blog

  • Calder, Gideon: Richard Rorty (1931-2007) Philosophy Now 62 (2007)

  • Daily Telegraph: Richard Rorty Dies

  • Gitlin, Todd: The Patriot Boston.Com June 17, 2007

  • Glenn, David: Remembering Richard Rorty and the Intellectual Battles he Engendered Chronicle June 22, 2007

  • Gumbrecht, Hans: The Inspiring Power of the Shy Thinker: Richard Rorty

  • Habermas, Jürgen:

    • . . . And to Define America, her Athletic Democracy. The Philosopher and the Language Shaper: In Memory of Richard Rorty Telos November 2, 3 and 5, 2007 [Part 2 and Part 3]

    • Philosopher, Poet and Friend signandsight.com June 12, 2007

  • Hayes, Christopher: Remembering Richard Rorty Guardian June 11, 2007

  • McLemee, Scott: Requiem for a Heavyweight Inside Higher Ed June 13, 2007

  • Metcalf, Stephen: Richard Rorty: What Made him a Crucial American Philosopher? Slate June 15, 2007

  • Moreno, Jonathan D. Richard Rorty: Memories of a True Progressive

  • New York Times: Richard Rorty, Philosopher, Dies at 75

  • Postel, Danny: High Flyer: Richard Rorty Obituary New Humanist 122.4 (2007)

  • Rée, Jonathan: Remembering Rorty Prospect Magazine 136 (July 2007)

  • Reemtsma, Jan Philipp: Richard Rorty: an Obituary Mittelweg 36 (2007)

  • Robbins, Bruce: On Richard Rorty N+1 July 3, 2007

  • Romano, Carlin: Richard Rorty (1931-2007): the View from Somewhere Chronicle 6-29-2007

  • Salamon, János: The Afternoon of a Pragmatist Faun: Richard Rorty (1931-2007) Magyar Narancs 19.25 (2007)

  • San Francisco Gate: Richard Rorty: Philosopher Who Couldn't Be Ignored

  • Sartwell, Crispin: The Provocateur's Philosopher Los Angeles Times June 12, 2007

  • Stanford University: Richard Rorty, Distinguished Public Intellectual and Controversial Philosopher, Dead at 75

  • Swanson, David: Rorty: the Best We've Ever Had

  • Telos: Richard Rorty, 1931-2007

  • Washington Post: Richard Rorty, 75; Leading U.S. Pragmatist Philosopher

• Albert, Michael: Richard Rorty the Public Philosopher

• Anon: Bored by Philosophy Economist June 12, 2008

• BBC4: Richard Rorty: the Man Who Killed Truth

• Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner: Richard Rorty and Postmodern Theory

• Blackburn, Simon: Richard Rorty Prospect Magazine 85 (April 2003)

• Blake, Cary Nelson: Pragmatist Hope Dissent (Spring 2007)

• Bragues, George: Richard Rorty's Postmodern Case for Liberal Democracy: a Critique

• Cavalier, Robert, et al.: Notes on Richard Rorty and Habermas

• Danto, Arthur C.: Margins for Error

• Demeterio, F. P. A.: Some Useful Lessons from Rorty's Political Philosophy for Philippine Postcolonialism Kritike 2.2 (2008)

• Dutton, Denis: Richard Rorty's Contingency, Irony and Solidarity Philosophy and Literature 14 (1990): 232-234.

• Eassom, Simon: Richard Rorty Philosophers' Magazine April 2002

• Egyed, Béla: We Anti-Foundationalists: a Response to Richard Rorty's 'Democracy and Philosophy' Eurozine

• Fyffe, Richard: Conversational Constraints: Richard Rorty and Contemporary Critical Theory

• Geuras, Dean: Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth

• Geuss, Raymond: Richard Rorty at Princeton: Personal Recollections Arion: a Journal of Humanities and the Classics 15.3 (2008)

• Greif, Mark: The Corrupter of Youth The American Prospect September 19, 2008

• Halbert, Martin: Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

• Holland, Scott: The Coming Only is Sacred: Self-Creation and Social Solidarity in Richard Rorty’s Secular Eschatology Cross Currents (2004)

• Jeffries, Stuart: Beautiful Minds Guardian November 3 (2003)

• Leiter, Brian:

  • Carlin Romano: Total Ignorance of Philosophy is No Obstacle to Opining about Richard Rorty Leiter Reports September 9, 2007

  • Science and Morality: Pragmatic Reflections on Rorty's Pragmatism University of Chicago Law Review (2007): .

• Lewis-Kraus, Gideon: Bibliography of Richard Rorty's Writings to 2007

• McLemee, Scott: Becoming Richard Rorty Inside Higher Ed May 7, 2008

• Okshevsky, Walter: Richard Rorty on the Power of Philosophical Reflection and the Pragmatist Conception of Critical Thinking

• Paparella, Emanuel L.: Richard Rorty's Unflinching Critique of Modern Western Philosophy Ovi Magazine May 19, 2008

• Ramberg, Bjorn: Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Ramey, Bill: Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, and the Platonic Myth

• Rée, Jonathan:

  • Remembering Rorty Prospect Magazine 136 (July 2007)

  • Strenuous Unbelief London Review of Books October 15, 1998

• Richard Rorty Video

• Rothfork, John: Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty and Michael Polanyi

• Ryerson, James: Thinking Cheerfully New York Times July 22, 2007

• Scruton, Roger: Richard Rorty’s Legacy open Democracy June 12, 2007

• Shusterman, Richard: Richard Rorty (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Stanford Report: Philosopher Richard Rorty Asserts Notion of Mind-Body Distinction is False April 13, 2005

• Swartz, Omar: The Anti-Theism of Richard Rorty Bad Subjects 72 (2005)

• Thompson, Simon: Richard Rorty: the Making of an American Philosopher Times Higher Education July 10, 2008

• Wellmer, Albrecht: Rereading Rorty Krisis 28.2 (2008)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Richard Rorty

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