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...Chris Voparil Abstract In a symposium built around a critical reassessment by Nicholas Gaskill of Richard Rorty's pragmatism, this contribution examines the provocative question of whether Rorty's rhetoric hinders Rortian aims. When reconsidering him in company with “the philosophical wing...

..., and to subsequent pragmatist‐constructivist antirepresentationalism in contemporary science and technology studies (STS) and “4E” (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) cognitive theory. A final section on Nicholas Gaskill's contribution to the symposium questions his sense of Rorty's rhetorical recklessness...

...Steve Fuller Abstract Richard Rorty is easily cast as the intellectual godfather of our post-truth condition. But unlike Nicholas Gaskill, whose article in Common Knowledge 28, no. 3, has engendered a continuing symposium in the journal, Professor Fuller sees Rorty's role as being to his credit...

...Jan Golinski Abstract This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” endorses Nicholas Gaskill's analysis of Rorty's limited legacy in the field of science and technology studies. It shows how, rather than engaging with scientific practice in a substantial...

...Barry Allen; Richard Rorty; Nicholas Gaskill; Chris Voparil; Barbara Herrnstein Smith Abstract This essay introduces a running symposium on the work of Richard Rorty and its legacy fifteen years after his passing. The arc of Rorty's thought defines a trajectory through American pragmatism, tracing...

...Nicholas Gaskill Abstract As the leading contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?,” this essay asks why Rorty was so often taken to be saying things that he claimed he was not. The argument is that Rorty's rhetorical approach and jargon engendered...

... in support of his own arguments and positions. His doing so has perhaps misled some, including Nicholas Gaskill, whose essay “Rorty against Rorty” incited this symposium, 1 to suppose that Rorty had any particular interest in science. He was pleased to be regarded as a “Kuhnian” (though a Kuhnian, as he...

...-seeing perspective. 5 In his essay “Rorty against Rorty,” 1 Nicholas Gaskill trenchantly discusses the perils, while reminding us of the promises, of Richard Rorty's vision of an antiauthoritarian culture committed to “endless conversation” in pursuit of “social hope.” In doing so, Gaskill...

... . Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 1989 . Gaskill Nicholas . “ Rorty against Rorty: Climate Change, Rug-Pulling, and the Rhetoric of Philosophy .” Common Knowledge 28 , no. 3...

... of Longing ; Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity ; The Poet's Voice ; The Invention of Prose ; and Foucault's Virginity . Nicholas Gaskill is associate professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization...