Works by Rorty

Cited by Abbreviation

[PMN]

1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[CP]

1982, Consequences of Pragmatism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

[CIS]

1989, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, New York: Cambridge University Press.

[ORT]

1991, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, New York: Cambridge University Press.

[EHO]

1991, Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2, New York: Cambridge University Press.

[TP]

1998, Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3, New York: Cambridge University Press.

[AOC]

1998, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[PSH]

2000, Philosophy and Social Hope. New York: Penguin Books.

[PCP]

2007, Philosophy as Cultural Politics, Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, New York: Cambridge University Press.

[RR]

2010, The Rorty Reader. Voparil, C. J., and R. J. Bernstein (eds), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

[MLM]

2014, Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers. Leach, S., and J. Tartaglia (eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press.

[OPP]

2020, On Philosophy and Philosophers: Unpublished Papers, 1960–2000. Małecki, W. P., and C. Voparil (eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Other Works by Rorty

• 1952, “Whitehead’s Use of the Concept of Potentiality,” MA thesis, University of Chicago. (Scholar)
• 1956, “The Concept of Potentiality,” PhD dissertation, Yale University. (Scholar)
• 1961, “Recent Metaphilosophy,” The Review of Metaphysics, 15(2): 299–318. (Scholar)
• 1972, “Functionalism, Machines, and Incorrigibility,” Journal of Philosophy, 69: 203–220. (Scholar)
• 1973, “Criteria and Necessity,” Noûs, 7(4): 313–329. (Scholar)
• 1976, “Realism and Reference,” The Monist, 59(3): 321–340. (Scholar)
• 1977, “Derrida on Language, Being, and Abnormal Philosophy,” Journal of Philosophy, 74(11): 673–681. (Scholar)
• 1979, “Transcendental Arguments, Self-Reference and Pragmatism,” in P. Bieri, R. P. Hortsman, and L. Kruger (eds.), Transcendental Arguments and Science, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, pp. 77–103. (Scholar)
• 1982, “Contemporary Philosophy of Mind,” Synthese, 53(2): 323–348. (Scholar)
• 1984, “The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres,” in R. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, and Q. Skinner (eds.), Philosophy in History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 49–76. (Scholar)
• 1986, “Beyond Realism and Anti-Realism,” in L. Nagl, and R. Heinrich (eds.), Wo steht die Analytische Philosophie heute? Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, pp. 103–115. (Scholar)
• 1996, “Who Are We?: Moral Universalism and Economic Triage,” Diogenes, 44(173): 5–15. (Scholar)
• 1997, “Introduction,” in W. Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, pp. 1–12. (Scholar)
• 1997, Truth, Politics and ‘Post-Modernism.’ The 1997 Spinoza Lectures. Amsterdam: Van Gorcum. (Scholar)
• 1999, “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 53(207): 7–20. (Scholar)
• 2007, “Dewey and Posner on Pragmatism and Moral Progress,” University of Chicago Law Review, 74(3): 915–927. (Scholar)

Edited Volumes, Collaborations, Exchanges, and Interviews

• Auxier, R. E., and L. E. Hahn (eds.), 2010, The Philosophy of Richard Rorty, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Balslev, A. N., 1999, Cultural Otherness: Correspondence with Richard Rorty, Atlanta: Scholars Press. (Scholar)
• Brandom, R. B., (ed.), 2000, Rorty and His Critics. Malden: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Collini, S. (ed.), 1992, Interpretation and Overinterpretation, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Festenstein, M., and S. Thompson (eds.), 2001, Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• Huang, Y. (ed.), 2009, Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Kulp, C. B., (ed.), 1997, Realism/Antirealism and Epistemology. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (Scholar)
• Lewis-Kraus, G., 2003, “An Interview with Richard Rorty,” The Believer 3. [Available online]. (Scholar)
• Mendieta, E. (ed.), 2006, Take Care of Freedom and Truth will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Mouffe, C. (ed.), 1996, Deconstruction and Pragmatism, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Niznik, J and J. T. Sanders (eds.), 1996, Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kołakowski. Westport: Praeger Publishers. (Scholar)
• Nystrom, D., and K. Puckett (eds.), 1998, Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty. Charlottesville, VA: Prickly Pear Pamphlets. (Scholar)
• Rorty, R., E. Lee, and A. Mourelatos, (eds.), 1973, Exegesis and Argument: Essays in Greek Philosophy presented to Gregory Vlastos. Amsterdam: Van Gorcum. (Scholar)
• Rorty, R. (ed.), 1992, The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method with Two Retrospective Essays. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Rorty, R., and G. Vattimo, 2005, The Future of Religion, S. Zabala (ed.), New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Rorty, R., and P. Engel, 2007, What’s the Use of Truth?, W. McCuaig (trans.), New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Rorty, R., 2011, An Ethics for Today: Finding Common ground between Philosophy and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Saatkamp, H. J. Jr. (ed.), 1995, Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to his Critics. Nashville and London: Vanderbilt University Press. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

Anthologies about Rorty

• Auxier, R., E. Kramer, and K. P. Skowroński (eds.), 2020, Rorty and Beyond, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Dieleman, S., D. E. McClean, and P. Showler (eds.), 2022, The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination, New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Goodson, J. L., 2020, The Dark Years? Philosophy, Politics, and the Problem of Predictions, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. (Scholar)
• Goodson, J. L., and B. E. Stone (eds.), 2012, Rorty and the Religious: Christian Engagements with a Secular Philosopher, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. (Scholar)
• Gröschner, A., C. Koopman, and M. Sandbothe (eds.), 2013, Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics, London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Guignon, C., and D. R. Hiley (eds.), 2003, Richard Rorty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Janack, M. (ed.), 2010, Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, University Park: The Pennsylvania State Press. (Scholar)
• Langsdorf, L., and A. R. Smith (eds.), 1995, Recovering Pragmatism’s Voice: The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Marchetti, G. (ed.), 2022, The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty. New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Malachowski, A. R. (ed.), 1990, Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Beyond, Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2020, A Companion to Rortyk Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons Ltd. (Scholar)
• Müller, M. (ed.), 2019, Handbuch Richard Rorty, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (Scholar)
• Peters, M. A., and P. Ghiraldelli, Jr. (eds.), 2002, Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Pettegrew, J. (ed.), 2000, A Pragmatist’s Progress?: Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History, Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Rondel, D. (ed.), 2021, The Cambridge Companion to Rorty. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Saatkamp, H. J. (ed.), 1995, Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. (Scholar)

Monographs about Rorty

• Arcilla, R. V., 1995, For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education, New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Bacon, M, 2007, Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism, Lanham and Plymouth: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Calcaterra, R. M., 2019, Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty, Boston: Brill-Rodopi. (Scholar)
• Calder, G., 2007, Rorty’s Politics of Redescription, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. (Scholar)
• Casey, M. A., 2002, Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud, and Rorty, Lanham: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Chin, C., 2018, The Practice of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Curtis, W. B., 2015, Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Farrell, F. B., 1994, Subjectivity, Realism and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Gander, E. M., 1999, The Last Conceptual Revolution: A Critique of Richard Rorty’s Political Philosophy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. (Scholar)
• Gascoigne, N., 2008, Richard Rorty, Cambridge and Malden: Polity. (Scholar)
• Geras, N., 1995, Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty, London and New York: Verso. (Scholar)
• Gross, N., 2008, Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Hall, D. L., 1994, Richard Rorty: Poet and Prophet of the New Pragmatism, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Kolenda, K., 1990, Rorty’s Humanistic Pragmatism: Philosophy Democratized, Tampa: University of South Florida Press. (Scholar)
• Kuipers, R. A., 1997, Solidarity and the Stranger: Themes in the Social Philosophy of Richard Rorty, Lanham: University Press of America. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Richard Rorty, London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Llanera, T., 2020, Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Palgrave MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Malachowski, A. R., 2002, Richard Rorty, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Voparil, C. J., 2006, Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists. New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)

Citations and Other Relevant Works

• Alexander, T. M., 1987, John Dewey’s Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Brodsky, G., 1982, “Rorty’s Interpretation of Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 18(4): 311–337. (Scholar)
• Campbell, J., 1984, “Rorty’s Use of Dewey” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 22(2): 175–187. (Scholar)
• Edel, A., 1985, “A Missing Dimension in Rorty’s Use of Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 21(1): 21–37. (Scholar)
• Gouinlock, J., 1995, “What is the Legacy of Instrumentalism? Rorty’s Interpretation of Dewey” in H. J. Saatkamp (ed.), Rorty and Pragmatism, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 72–90. (Scholar)
• Haack, S., 1993, Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology, Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Lavine, T. Z., 1995, “America & the Contestations of Modernity: Bentley, Dewey, Rorty,” in H. J. Saatkamp (ed.), Rorty and Pragmatism, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 37–49. (Scholar)
• McDowell, J., 1994, Mind and World, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Misak, C., 2013, The American Pragmatists, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Quine, W. V. O., 1951 [1953/1980], “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” Philosophical Review, 60: 20–43; reprinted in From a Logical Point of View, 1953 (2nd Edition, 1980), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 20–46. (Scholar)
• Sleeper, R.W., 1986, The Necessity of Pragmatism, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Scholar)