"Liberalism, Ethnocentrism, and Solidarity: Reflections on Rorty"
Journal of Philosophical Research 34:55-68 (2009)
| Abstract | In this paper I defend Richard Rorty against two critics of his moral and political philosophy—Will Kymlicka and Robert Talisse—to whom Rorty himself never responded directly. I argue that Kymlicka misrepresents Rorty’s so-called “ethnocentrism” by giving it a needlessly affirmative reading, and that Talisse, by failing to appreciate the distinction between “making truth claims” and “proposing experiments” misunderstands both Rorty’s use of Darwin and his antifoundational liberalism | |||||||||
| Keywords | Richard Rorty Liberalism American Pragmatism Robert Talisse Will Kymlicka | |||||||||
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