1.0 link 53039 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-bauer/richard-rorty-and-the-ric_b_53039.html When the philosopher Richard Rorty passed away this month, tribute was paid to the impressive figure he cut on the stage of American philosophy. A quick-witted thinker and elegant writer, he refreshed and explained to a wide audience the pragmatic tradition -- a denial that there are truths "out there" other than the ones we adopt because they prove useful in solving specific problems. Rorty was also a man of the left who worried about the state of progressive thought...

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