... © 2023 by Duke University Press 2022 Richard Rorty philosophical rhetoric climate change science studies nature/culture binary Whatever happened to Richard Rorty? Twenty years ago, his call to free ourselves from absolutes made him one of America's most renowned, if also sometimes...

...), for science-centered arguments to support his own philosophical neopragmatism. The editor cites a letter from Rorty sent to him in the early 1990s, suggesting that the differences between Feyerabend and himself were temperamental more than philosophical. Rorty enjoyed referring to himself and others like him...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay is a critical examination of the charge of self-refutation, particularly as leveled by orthodoxy-defending philosophers against those maintaining epistemologically unorthodox, especially relativistic or skeptical, views. Beginning...

...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...

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... emphasizes that he is “arguing that it is the rhetorical presentation of his positions, more than the positions themselves, that has distorted [Rorty's] philosophical legacy” and writes of would-be sympathetic readers who “trip over” Rorty's language and “rug-pulling rhetoric.” 40 To illustrate the point...

.... . Was Lorenzo Valla an Ordinary Language Philosopher? Journal of the History of Ideas 50, no. 2 (1989): 309 23. Murphy, James J. A Quintilian Anniversary and Its Meaning. Advances in the History of Rhetoric 19, no. 2 (2016): 107 10. . Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint...

... by Duke University Press 2022 Relativism, most philosophers seem to agree, is an elusive and frustrating doctrine, difficult to define and, despite the efforts of the best philosophical minds for over two thousand years, evidently impossible to eradicate. Perhaps, as with other elusive entities, like...

...Richard Shiff Academics generate circles of thought. Their preferred modes of conceptualization—the intellectual constructions in circulation within academic discourse at a given moment—readily pass across disciplinary boundaries. During the past two centuries, philosophical critique...

....” See Laudan, Science and Hypothesis , 72–85 . 28. See Hanson, Patterns of Discovery ; Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions . 29. In support of this claim, consider that philosophers have often made a point of clearing a space, rhetorically, in which to make their own...

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... This distinction raised important philo- sophical problems—what had being free to do with being human?—in which Skinner has been interested as both philosopher and historian. (Berlin figures in Skinner’s inaugural lecture as Regius Professor and in his Isaiah Berlin Lec- 21. Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric...

... Friedrich Nietzsche antiauthoritarianism A philosophical opus is the accomplishment of a lifetime and is something that not all of us (despite our best efforts) are capable of achieving. It is the overarching product of many contingent abilities and influences. Moreover, not all of us are lucky enough...

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... and environmental degradation. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Jan Golinski 2023 Richard Rorty Thomas Kuhn Gaia Bruno Latour Isabelle Stengers In Nicholas Gaskill's article, “Rorty against Rorty: Climate Change, Rug-Pulling, and the Rhetoric of Philosophy,” the philosopher stands...

.... But parrhesia also was prized in the more private arena of the philosophical schools, where it was associated with the art of moral guidance. The philosophers were united in regarding frank criticism as the mark of true friendship. The consensus among them appears to have been that frank criticism was best...

... of “genre,” they ostensibly place them, as Foucault did, beyond the familiar order of truth and falsehood. Their rhetoric is persistently contrarian. Much of the confusion besetting contemporary defenders of the modern humanities, they suggest, derives from the unconscious conflation of historically...

... Perhaps it will be said that in my last sentences we find metaphysics in its • most literal sense—the God of the philosophers—or even metaphysics made trivial by vulgar rhetoric. But is recovery not the point of redescription, destruc...

... compares the pragmatist's central tenets with ideas emerging from the “philosophical wing” (as Gaskill calls it) of the field of science and technology studies. In this frame, Gaskill identifies a double problem with Rorty as he may appear to us today. On the one hand, Rorty's insistence that anything...

... murder, on June 22, 1936, which was most definitely a political assassination, is that today's academic world may well have been an entirely different one if he had gone on to lead the Vienna Circle into exile. That group of young philosophers of science had formed as he assumed the University...