After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367165703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 278 str.

Kai Nielsen

Opis

This book presents a chain of argument as well as a conversation conducted in the presence of the major contributors to the "end-of-philosophy" debate: the critics of the dominantly Platonic-Cartesian-Kantian tradition and its defenders.

Spis treści

Part One: The Tradition 1. Subjecting the Tradition to Stress 2. Rorty and the Self-Image of Philosophy 3. How to Be Skeptical About Philosophy 4. The Tradition in Retreat 5. On Being Ontologically Unserious 6. Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinians, and the End of Philosophy Part Two: New Directions 7. Can There Be Progress in Philosophy? 8. Scientism, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Philosophy 9. Searching for an Emancipatory Perspective: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Hermeneutical Circle 10. Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Transformation of Philosophy 11. In Defense of Wide Reflective Equilibrium

O autorze

Nielsen, Kai