Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780415579650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Roy Bhaskar

Opis

In this work, Roy Bhaskar sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, who must be one of the most influential authors of recent decades. Bhaskar shows how Rorty falls victim to the very epistemological problematic Rorty himself describes.

Spis treści

Anti-Rorty; Part 1 Knowledge; Chapter 1 Rorty's Account of Science; Chapter 2 Pragmatism, Epistemology and the Inexorability of Realism; Part 2 Agency; Chapter 3 The Essential Tension of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - or a Tale of Two Rortys; Chapter 4 How is Freedom Possible?; Part 3 Politics; Chapter 5 Self-defining versus Social Engineering - Poetry and Politics:The Problem-field of Contingency, Irony and Solidarity; Chapter 6 Rorty's Apologetics; Part 4 Kibitzing; Chapter 7 Reference, Fictionalism and Radical Negation; Chapter 8 Rorty's Changing Conceptions of Philosophy; For Critical Realism; Chapter 9 Critical Realism in Context;

O autorze

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and in?uential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., From Science to Emancipation, Reflections on meta-Reality and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education.