Journal of Philosophical Research 34:55-68 (2009)
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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
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Keywords | Richard Rorty Liberalism American Pragmatism Robert Talisse Will Kymlicka |
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ISBN(s) | 1053-8364 |
DOI | 10.5840/jpr_2009_10 |
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