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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
My objective here is to sketch a proposal against the many who insist on reading Rorty as arguing within traditional philosophy, in spite of his contentions to the contrary. I want to suggest that Rorty should be read as importantly outside the philosophical tradition and as an external critic. My proposal turns on roughing out how Rorty's brand of prag- matism differs from more familiar sorts.
1 Thayer, H. S., “Pragmatism”, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 6 (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 435.Google Scholar
2 Rorty, Richard, Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 1982), xivGoogle Scholar.
3 Ibid.
4 Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), 174Google Scholar.
5 Winter term, Princeton University, 1982.
6 I owe the example to Vinit Hacksar.
7 Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, xlii.
8 Ibid.
9 I owe the example to Henry Laycock.
