1st Edition
After The Demise Of The Tradition Rorty, Critical Theory, And The Fate Of Philosophy
By Kai Nielsen
Copyright 1991
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Preface and Acknowledgements -- The Tradition -- Subjecting the Tradition to Stress -- Rorty and the Self-Image of Philosophy -- How to Be Skeptical About Philosophy -- The Tradition in Retreat -- On Being Ontologically Unserious -- Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinians, and the End of Philosophy -- New Directions -- Can There Be Progress in Philosophy? -- Scientism, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Philosophy -- Searching for an Emancipatory Perspective: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Hermeneutical Circle -- Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Transformation of Philosophy -- In Defense of Wide Reflective Equilibrium
Biography
Nielsen, Kai
