Liberalism, Ethnocentrism, and Solidarity

Rondel, David

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“…Although Rorty is often engaged with, his views are not frequently endorsed by others (though see Bacon , Bacon , Rondel). There are many lines of criticism in currency.…”

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Pragmatist Political Philosophy

Talisse¹

2014

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This essay surveys three prominent trends in current pragmatist political philosophy: Deweyan Democratic Perfectionism, Rortyan Ironism, and Pragmatist Epistemic Deliberativism. After articulating the main commitments of each view, the author raises philosophical problems each must confront. The essay closes with the more general criticism that pragmatist political theory has been nearly exclusively focused on democracy, but needs to address additional topics.As recent accounts emphasize (Bacon, Burke, 2013, Misak 2013, pragmatism is the name of an unruly philosophical family. The earliest pragmatists -Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey -disagreed over fundamentals, and when post-Deweyan pragmatists like are included, the discord becomes only more pronounced. Perhaps the most that can be said is that pragmatism is a series of ongoing disputes about truth, meaning, and value that was inaugurated by American empirical naturalists committed to the idea that empiricism must begin from a socialized account of human activity.One might expect a philosophy with that orientation to focus on issues in political philosophy. Surprisingly, such matters were of little concern to Peirce and James, and much of subsequent pragmatism has followed them in attending mostly to issues in metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the philosophy of language. It was Dewey who placed political philosophy at the top of pragmatism's agenda. Accordingly, a longstanding trend takes politics -particularly, democracy -to form the core of pragmatist philosophy. Currently, there are three prominent streams within pragmatist political philosophy: Deweyan democratic perfectionism, Rortyan ironism, and pragmatist epistemic deliberativism. For each, I will provide a brief description and then sketch a few lingering problems.

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“…Although Rorty is often engaged with, his views are not frequently endorsed by others (though see Bacon , Bacon , Rondel). There are many lines of criticism in currency.…”

Section: Rortyan Ironismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pragmatist Political Philosophy

Talisse¹

2014

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“…I cannot here provide arguments in support of the claim that their views are nonviable; see Talisse for a criticism of Rorty's views, and Talisse for a critique of Posner's views. See Rondel and Hodges for defenses of Rorty against my objections.…”

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Toward a New Pragmatist Politics

Talisse

2011

Metaphilosophy

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In A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, I launched a pragmatist critique of Deweyan democracy and a pragmatist defense of an alternative view of democracy, one based in C. S. Peirce's social epistemology. In this article, I develop a more precise version of the criticism of Deweyan democracy I proposed in A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, and provide further details of the Peircean alternative. Along the way, some recent critics are addressed.

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‘Who Are We?’ On Rorty, Rhetoric, and Politics

Baruchello

Weber

2014

The European Legacy

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It is not unusual to think of Rorty's work as a success in rhetoric and a failure in political philosophy. In this article we re-evaluate this assessment by analyzing a typical feature of Rorty's writing: his frequent use of "we so-and-so." Taking stock of the existing literature on the subject we discuss how Rorty's use of the "we" was received by peers and how he himself made sense of it. We then analyze Rorty's oeuvre in order to show that a better understanding of his rhetorical "we" could make his politico-philosophical "we" more appealing. We suggest that Rorty's pragmatist take on "ethnos" is preferable to other notions that are currently championed in political theory and philosophy.

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Liberalism, Ethnocentrism, and Solidarity

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Pragmatist Political Philosophy

Pragmatist Political Philosophy

Toward a New Pragmatist Politics

‘Who Are We?’ On Rorty, Rhetoric, and Politics

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