Richard Rorty coined the term "final vocabulary" which he explicated in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity to mean a set of communicative beliefs whose contingency the bearer more or less ignores.
In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.
Richard Rorty (1931 – 2007), Kenan Professor of Humanities, University of Virginia.
He was also the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty.
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The central theses of logical positivism (verificationism, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reductionism, etc.) came under sharp attack after World War 2 by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, W.V. Quine, Hilary Putnam, Karl Popper, and Richard Rorty.
Richard Rorty, Stolz auf unser Land. Die amerikanische Linke und der Patriotismus (Achieving Our Country).
Schooled in analytic philosophy, his approach increasingly diverged from the mainstream having more in common with the American philosopher Richard Rorty and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
New Institutionalism is often contrasted with "old" or "classical" institutionalism, the latter of which was first articulated in the writings of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and others, and which has been further extrapolated by various philosophers and scholars such as Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Amartya Sen, Donald McCloskey, Warren Samuels, Daniel Bromley, E. J. Mishan, Yngve Ramstad, and others.
The magazine continued to focus on public questions, exemplified by the 1998 cluster “Is Everything Relative?” with articles by E. O. Wilson, Richard Rorty, and Paul R. Gross debating Wilson’s claim in Consilience that all branches of knowledge will eventually be unified by a biological understanding of human life.
Neil Gross (2008), Richard Rorty, The Making of an American Philosopher.