Rorty on Posner and Dewey - Part 2 of 4

Description: The 2006 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago Law School. Richard Rorty (1931-2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative—a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive—an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which ...