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Artifact drop: Constructivist Lens.
Tap to rewrite your ontology as metaphor. Because “truth” was always a house rule.🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/31/constructivist-lens-artifact/
#Philosophy #Constructivism #MTG #Satire #CriticalTheory #parody #Postmodernism #Rorty #blog #sociology #psychology #LanguageGames #Philosophics
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The problem is... as Rorty pointed out in a number of ways in a number of tomes... We may come back from this... but may never be the same #philosophy #Rorty #resistance
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If you've got half an hour free during the day, this is a rather interesting conversation with #philosopher, or 'metaethicist', Simon Blackburn. The discussion touches on #ethics, #pragmatism, #truth, #Rorty, #Ryle, #Nietzsche, #perspectivism, and plenty more.
In one section he cites #Russell on #Bradley, which made me think of you @PeterSjostedtH
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"By #historicism I mean the doctrine that there is no relation of "closeness of fit" between language and the world: no image of the world projected by language is more or less representative of the way the world really is than any other."
This is from #Rorty. I have to say, I do not grasp the basis for defining the specific term "historicism" in this way. It seems rather to beg the question.
@ironick17 or anyone else, any illumination?
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"By #historicism I mean the doctrine that there is no relation of "closeness of fit" between language and the world: no image of the world projected by language is more or less representative of the way the world really is than any other."
This is from #Rorty. I have to say, I do not grasp the basis for defining the specific term "historicism" in this way. It seems rather to beg the question.
@ironick17 or anyone else, any illumination?
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"By #historicism I mean the doctrine that there is no relation of "closeness of fit" between language and the world: no image of the world projected by language is more or less representative of the way the world really is than any other."
This is from #Rorty. I have to say, I do not grasp the basis for defining the specific term "historicism" in this way. It seems rather to beg the question.
@ironick17 or anyone else, any illumination?
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"By #historicism I mean the doctrine that there is no relation of "closeness of fit" between language and the world: no image of the world projected by language is more or less representative of the way the world really is than any other."
This is from #Rorty. I have to say, I do not grasp the basis for defining the specific term "historicism" in this way. It seems rather to beg the question.
@ironick17 or anyone else, any illumination?
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"By #historicism I mean the doctrine that there is no relation of "closeness of fit" between language and the world: no image of the world projected by language is more or less representative of the way the world really is than any other."
This is from #Rorty. I have to say, I do not grasp the basis for defining the specific term "historicism" in this way. It seems rather to beg the question.
@ironick17 or anyone else, any illumination?
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"An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically"
"The poetic is in the listening as much as it is the speaking; it is made by the human ear as much as by the human voice. While poets are those who write or speak poetically; ironists are those who read or listen poetically."
#Philosophy
#Pragmatism
#RobertFrost
#Poetry
#Rorty
#Ironyhttps://erraticus.co/2023/04/24/an-ironist-must-learn-to-listen-poetically/
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SO EXCITED!!! And so many questions.
Why didn't I see this mentioned in my Twitter feed (I had to search to find it)?
Why is there a #Hegel hashtag but not a #Rorty hashtag?
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RT @OUPPhilosophy
This book by Robert B. Brandom, ‘Pragmatism and Idealism’ makes for great reading while we focus on 20th Century philosophy, drawing upon Richard Rorty and #Hegel. Find out more about this book here: https://bit.ly/3XJ7Ik4
https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1605967201973850115 -
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This ability to humiliate another's philosophy reminds of #Rorty's warning to the ironist when critiquing another's vocabulary:
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I asked @ChatGPT for the best #Rorty quotes.
We're a long way from being able to trust ChatGPT with our homework/research...
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TIL about the "linguistic turn" in quantum physics. #Rorty would be delighted.
Shiro Ishikawa, 'History of Western Philosophy from the quantum theoretical point of view'
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Another #Rorty essay that I've never seen; also one that's virtually unreferenced. This is shocking because it is *so good*. Arguably one of his best takes on anti-authoritarianism.
"The Continuity Between the Enlightenment and ‘Postmodernism’"
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781503619128-004/html
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Local solutions may clear up one kind of suffering while exacerbating another kind of suffering somewhere else; and this will continue to happen until the end of time.
- #Rorty
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WOW! What a simple, intuitive example of #Rorty's #philosophy of ethnocentric #morality (derived from #Nietzsche's): our purposes (esp hopes) shape our values.
Relevant to our improv yesterday @reddy2go @PorotChristophe
h/t @PhilosopherGMs
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Came across this absolute gem (James Conant on #Rorty's #philosophy of #hope):
'So the concept of hope itself becomes important…because any of the things that might have brought us hope in their wake—truth, beauty, humanity—have been left out.'Hope itself as the ultimate aim.
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"Government, business, art, religion, all social institutions have... a purpose[:]... to set free the capacities of human individuals... [T]he test of their value is the extent to which they educate every individual into the full stature of his possibility."
- #Dewey, Reconstruction in #Philosophy (1920) [as quoted by #Rorty (1998)].Wonder what kind of values would be returned were such tests applied to our social institutions, beginning with academia.
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"Your devotion to #democracy is unlikely to be wholehearted if you believe, as monotheists typically do, that we can have #knowledge of an "objective" ranking of human needs that can overrule the result of democratic consensus."
- Richard #Rorty (1998).Generally, I find Rorty to be a troublesome thinker, often unconcerned with revising his interpretations (as nevertheless befits his global #philosophy). This, however, is a powerful statement in favor of secularism.
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What a privilege to share in Richard Bernstein’s last philosophy class through this moving piece by Jordi Graupera!
We were not related, but at New Year’s Day open houses that he and Carol hosted, I knew him as generous, vibrant, intellectually provocative in gentle ways. #Arendt #Habermas #Rorty #thenewyorker
A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class
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This 3-way interview from '02, featuring #Rorty, #Putnam + #Conant is very interesting.
Most interesting about it, to my mind, is that it's Putnam who comes across as most down-to-earth, most authentically, experientially connected with real-world concerns. In other words, who comes across as most genuinely #pragmatist. Even when referencing #Kant or #Plato, he is less abstract in tone and content than either Conant or, especially, Rorty. Symptomatic?
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Things I never thought I'd see:
(1) Rorty labeled an "ultranationalist".
(2) Rorty writing approvingly (albeit in personal correspondence) about political assassination."Richard Rorty at Princeton: Personal Recollections" by Raymond Geuss
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Conservatives hope that our distant descendants will be very similar to us.
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The new issue of "Philosophy & Social Criticism" (Vol. 48, No. 10) features articles on pragmatism (Dewey & Rorty), including:
* "Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge" - Felix Petersen (open access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221114917
* "Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism?" - Martin Seeliger & Johannes Kiess (open access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221117097
#Philosophy @philosophy #pragmatism #Dewey #Rorty #Criticaltheory #Democracy
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Not bad for an AI chatbot:
#Philosophy
#Rorty
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This is also a favorite of mine from the essay.
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Richard Rorty multipragmatiste
#Rorty a fait de la conversation un genre philosophique à part entière, qui l’a poussé à refuser toutes les distinctions stériles à ses yeux : entre l’analytique et le continental, entre les #Lumières et la #postmodernité, entre la philosophie et la littérature.
par Stéphane Madelrieux #Philo #philosophie
👉 https://laviedesidees.fr/Richard-Rorty-multipragmatiste.html
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Just came across this gem: Rorty tying his "anything can be made to look good or bad" back to Socrates! And the examples are fire(!): I suspect that the souls of the Aztec priests painstakingly gouging out their prisoners’ hearts and..those of the Catholic bureaucrats whose mission civilizatrice made the Congo so profitable to King Leopold, and of the Unitarian captains of the slave ships, were as harmonious as most."
- 'Robustness: A Reply to Jean Bethke Elshtain'
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Here is the program for the #Rorty Conference at ENS-PSL (Paris) on Dec 8th and 9th https://www.translitterae.psl.eu/repenser-rorty-politique-langage-et-esthetique/ It will be "hybrid" : in presence and with the possibility of attending via Zoom (send me a DM if you are interested)
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@AweThatSparkle
"The imagination is the chief instrument of the good."
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CW: Poster for our upcoming Rorty Conference
