... antifoundationalism and postepistemology. Taken together, the work of Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway has been less about rebalancing the relative and the objective, and more about redrawing the checkerboard of knowledge into “in-disciplinary” styles of empirical philosophy. These styles rely...

... antifoundationalism As Neil Gross, one of Rorty's biographers, has observed, “One could not be taken seriously as an intellectual in the 1990s without forming some kind of opinion as to Rorty's views.” 1 If twenty or thirty years on this is no longer the case, I attribute the change simply to our losing fresh...

... are all to be laid at the feet of a in his attack on the opponents of antifoundationalism, in handful of jejune postmodern latte-drinking relativists. I “The Return of Realism and the Future of Contingency,” find it outrageous, frankly, that foundationalists proceed...

... and everyone has the right to be understood.” 6 Rorty wants to protect this legacy, and he famously follows Kundera in looking to the novel to do so. Rorty's antifoundationalism is part and parcel of his commitment to freedom. This project is straightforward enough in his political writings, but in his...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... Russell’s humanitarianism Bertrand teacher specifi and biblical, the by shaped acivilization in living weare “only because thinkable is antifoundationalism Rorty’s friend—that his toconvert” wishing least the in Henceproposes—“without Vattimo ofChristianity.” truth actual...

... fields. In support of his own antifoundationalism, Rorty tended to cite Kuhn's claim that scientific knowledge cannot be built on unproblematic observation statements. As Neil Gross has shown, Kuhn also offered Rorty a way of understanding his own position with respect to mainstream analytic philosophy...

..., the temptations of an ecumenical peace arguably hindered Rorty's own attempts to pursue the laudable goal of “social hope.” While Stengers's robust understanding of practice may reveal a real, if limited, affinity with Rorty's antifoundationalism and antiauthoritarianism, her ethos of hesitation...