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The last post? Post-postmodernism and the linguistic u-turn [PDF]

, 2013
This paper adopts an autobiographical tone to review the linguistic turn and its demise at the hands Richard Rorty. Rorty, along with Continental philosophers like Lyotard rescued us from a philosophical delusion that we might achieve a neutral analysis ...
Peters, Michael A.
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

Coping with tradition: Rorty and the uses of the philosophical legacy [PDF]

, 2011
El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar que la relación de Rorty con la tradición filosófica presenta muchos más matices de los que su reputación podría hacer creer.
Marín Casanova, José Antonio
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Wittgenstein, normativity and the ‘space of reasons’

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 195-211, April 2026.
Abstract Wittgenstein's naturalism illuminates our ordinary normative practices of giving and asking for reasons and also related ‘philosophical’ conceptions of knowledge inspired by, for example, Sellars's image of the ‘space of reasons’. Some propose that the relevant naturalism motivates scepticism about the ‘space of reasons’ insofar as it ...
Benedict Smith
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„Rorty szótárfogalma – Heidegger-olvasata tükrében”. [PDF]

, 2010
„Rorty szótárfogalma – Heidegger-olvasata tükrében” című tanulmányomban arra mutatok rá, hogy Heidegger örökségének bizonyos – kiváltképp a nyelvre vonatkozó – elemei, miután Rorty – politikai célokat követve – de-ontologizáló újraleírásban részesíti ...
Nyírő, Miklós
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Values based practice and authoritarianism [PDF]

, 2014
Values based practice (VBP) is a radical view of the place of values in medicine which develops from a philosophical analysis of values, illness and the role of ethical principles. It denies two attractive and traditional but misguided views of medicine:
Thornton, Tim
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Hegel and Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 133-151, March 2026.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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No puzzles about truth for nonrealist cognitivism

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 38-54, March 2026.
Abstract Derek Parfit defended a metaethical theory which he calls nonrealist cognitivism. According to this theory, there are irreducibly normative truths that stand without ontological implications. A lot of literature has been dedicated to raising puzzles about the coherency of such a theory. The aim of this article is to solve a puzzle specifically
Evan Jack, Mustafa Khuramy
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Redemption from egotism: James and Proust as spiritual exercises

Telos: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales, 2001
Partiendo de la recomendaciones de Harold Bloom sobre qué leer y por qué, se plantea que la literatura imaginativa, más que la argumentativa, es la manera más eficiente de alcanzar una autonomía intelectual.
Richard Rorty
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