Richard Rorty

Tags: Philosopher.

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4 1931 – June 8 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy the latter of which came to comprise the main focus of his work at Princeton University in the 1960s.

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birth date

1931-10-04

birth place

New York City

death date

2007-06-08

death place

Palo Alto California

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Nikolas Kompridis, Gianni Vattimo, John McDowell, Robert Brandom, Laurence BonJour, Richard Posner

influenced by

Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Plato, Donald Davidson (philosopher), Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Vladimir Nabokov, Walt Whitman, Willard Van Orman Quine, John Rawls, Leo Strauss, Wilfrid Sellars, Thomas Kuhn

main interest

Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Meta-epistemology, Liberalism

notableIdea

Behaviorism, Postanalytic philosophy, Final vocabulary, Ironism

philosophicalSchool

Pragmatism, Postanalytic philosophy

region

Western philosophy