Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers. Rorty, R. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, November, 1990.
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In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
@book{rorty_objectivity_1990,
	address = {Cambridge ; New York},
	title = {Objectivity, {Relativism}, and {Truth}: {Philosophical} {Papers}},
	isbn = {978-0-521-35877-4},
	shorttitle = {Objectivity, {Relativism}, and {Truth}},
	abstract = {In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.},
	language = {English},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	author = {Rorty, Richard},
	month = nov,
	year = {1990}
}

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