1.0 link 51611 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seery/richard-rorty-ironically-_b_51611.html Richard Rorty, the philosopher and public intellectual most recently affiliated with Stanford University, is dead at 75. I don't intend this post to be a worthy tribute to him or anything close to it. I just want to put in a bid, amidst all the other encomia that are sure to come, for remembering (or at least not papering over) his Socratic tendencies recurrent throughout his luminous career. Others will rightly associate him with John Dewey's earnestness and the...

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