Rorty and His Critics

Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been called "the most interesting philosopher alive."

Notes on Contributors. Introduction. 1. Rorty: "Universality and Truth". 2. Habermas: Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn". 3. Rorty: "Response to Habermas". 4. Davidson: "Truth Rehabilitated". 5. Rorty: "Response to Davidson". 6. Putnam: "Richard Rorty on Reality and Justification". 7. Rorty: "Response to Putnam". 8. Dennett: "The Case for Rorts". 9. Rorty: "Response to Dennett". 10. McDowell: "Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity". 11. Rorty: "Response to McDowell". 12. Bouveresse: "Reading Rorty: Pragmatism and its Consequences". 13. Rorty: "Response to Bouveresse". 14. Brandom: "Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism". 15. Rorty: "Response to Brandom". 16. Williams "Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature". 17. Rorty: "Response to Williams". 18. Allen "What Was Epistemology?". 19. Rorty: "Response to Allen". 20. Bilgrami: "Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry?: Rorty and Davidson on Truth". 21. Rorty: "Response to Bilgrami". 22. Conant: "Freedom, Cruelty and Truth: Rorty versus Orwell". 23. Rorty: "Response to Conant". 24. Ramberg: "Post-ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty versus Davidson". 25. Rorty: "Response to Ramberg". Richard Rorty: Selected Publications. Index.