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-	'''Richard McKay Rorty''' (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an [[American philosopher]]. Educated at the [[University of Chicago]] and [[Yale University]], he had strong interests and training in both the [[history of philosophy]] and contemporary [[analytic philosophy]], the latter of which came to comprise the main focus of his work at [[Princeton University]] in the 1960s. He subsequently came to reject the tradition of philosophy according to which knowledge involves correct representation (a "mirror of nature") of a world whose existence remains wholly independent of that representation. Rorty had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at [[Princeton University]], Kenan Professor of Humanities at the [[University of Virginia]], and Professor of [[Comparative Literature]] at [[Stanford University]]. Among his most influential books are ''[[Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature]]'' (1979), ''Consequences of Pragmatism'' (1982), and ''[[Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity]]'' (1989).	+
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-	Rorty saw the idea of knowledge as a "mirror of nature" as pervasive throughout the history of [[western philosophy]]. Against this approach, Rorty advocated for a novel form of [[American pragmatism]], sometimes called [[neopragmatism]], in which scientific and philosophical methods form merely a set of [[contingency (philosophy)|contingent]] "[[final vocabulary|vocabularies]]" which people abandon or adopt over time according to social conventions and usefulness. Abandoning [[representationalist]] accounts of knowledge and language, Rorty believed, would lead to a state of mind he referred to as "[[ironist|ironism]]," in which people become completely aware of the contingency of their placement in history and of their philosophical vocabulary. Rorty tied this brand of philosophy to the notion of "social hope"; he believed that without the representationalist accounts, and without metaphors between the mind and the world, human society would behave more peacefully. He also emphasized the reasons why the interpretation of culture as conversation ([[Richard J. Bernstein|Bernstein]] 1971), constitutes the crucial concept of a "[[postphilosophy|postphilosophical]]" culture determined to abandon representationalist accounts of traditional epistemology, incorporating American pragmatist [[naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]] that considers the natural sciences as an advance towards [[liberalism]].	+
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-	==Select bibliography==	+
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-	* ''[[Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature]]''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.	+
-	* ''Consequences of Pragmatism''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982. {{ISBN|978-0816610631}}	+
-	* ''[[Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity]]''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0521353816}}	+
-	* ''Philosophical Papers'' vols. I–IV:	+
-	** ''Objectivity, Relativism and Truth: Philosophical Papers I''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. {{ISBN|978-0521353694}}	+
-	** ''Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers II''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.	+
-	** ''Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers III''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.	+
-	** ''[[Philosophy as Cultural Politics|Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers IV]]''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.	+
-	* ''[[Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy]]: Early Philosophical Papers'' Eds. S. Leach and J. Tartaglia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1107612297}}.	+
-	* ''[[Achieving Our Country]]: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0674003118}}	+
-	* ''[[Philosophy and Social Hope]]''. New York: Penguin, 2000.	+
-	* ''Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty''. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2002.	+
-	* ''The Future of Religion'' with [[Gianni Vattimo]] Ed. Santiago Zabala. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0231134941}}	+
-	* ''An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0231150569}}	+
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-	* ''The Linguistic Turn, Essays in Philosophical Method'', (1967), ed. by Richard M. Rorty, University of Chicago press, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0226725697}} (an introduction and two retrospective essays)	+
-	* ''Philosophy in History''. ed. by R. Rorty, [[J. B. Schneewind]] and [[Quentin Skinner]], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 (an essay by R. Rorty, "Historiography of philosophy", pp. 29–76)	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	* [[Contributions to liberal theory]]	+
-	* [[List of American philosophers]]	+
-	* [[List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction]]	+
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