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² Alasdair, Maclntyre, ‘Philosophy and Its History’, Analyse & Kritik I, No. 1 (10 1982), 101–115.Google Scholar

³ Ibid.,111.

⁴ Ibid., 109. The paper referred to is ‘Philosophy in America’, reprinted in The Consequences of Pragmatism, 211–230.

⁵ Ibid.

⁶ Ian, Hacking, ‘Is the End in Sight for Epistemology?’, Journal of Philosophy LXXVII, No. 10 (10 1980).Google Scholar

⁷ Actually I think Maclntyre's claims here should be questioned, though I shall not pursue it here. What I am most in sympathy with is his claim that Rorty's account is too fixed on philosophy as a distinct discipline with an internal history. Rorty, as Isaac Levi and Bernard Williams have both f differently argued, does not find an adequate place for science in his account. It is far too much seen as just one language-game among others. See Isaac, Levi, ‘Escape from Boredom: Edification According to Rorty’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy XI, No. 4 (12 1981), 589–601,Google Scholar and Bernard, Williams, ‘Auto-da-Fé’, New York Review of Books XXX, No. 7 (28 04 1983), 33–37.Google Scholar

⁸ Rorty, The Consequences of Pragmatism, 46.

⁹ Maclntyre, op. cit., 104.

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Ibid., 105.

¹² Ibid.

¹³ Rorty, The Consequencess of Pragmatism, 211–230.

¹⁴ Maclntyre, op. cit., 105.

¹⁵ Ibid., 105–106.

¹⁶ Ibid., 111–112.

¹⁷ Ibid., 108.

¹⁸ Ibid., 110.

¹⁹ Ibid.

²⁰ Rorty, The Consequences of Pragmatism, xv.