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Neo-pragmatism: Ideas at Work

As near as I can tell, the entire philosophy of neo-pragmatism is based on the assumption that philosophy is supposed to work. But for the life of me, I’m not 100% sure what it is that philosophy is supposed to work on. I suspect that it is a theory of “judgment,” but again, I’m not [...]

Value Added Philosophy

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In his book, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Richard Rorty proposes three major theses that, he suggests, will change the direction of contemporary philosophy.
His first thesis is that modern philosophy (since Kant1) has understood itself as epistemology, as a discipline devoted to “the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.”2 Unfortunately, writes [...]

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