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Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.

From the London Review dated 31 October 2002

To the Sunlit Uplands

Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams

If you agree with Dewey that the search for truth is just a particular species of the search for happiness, you will be accused of asserting something so counter-intuitive that only a lack of intellectual responsibility can account for your behaviour. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Vol. III (1998)
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th-Century America (1998)
Philosophy in History edited by Richard Rorty, Jerome B Schneewind and Quentin Skinner (1984)

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