Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The linguistic turn is a central aspect of Richard Rorty's philosophy, informing his early critiques of foundationalism in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and subsequent critiques of authoritarianism in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.It is argued that we should interpret the linguistic turn as a methodological suggestion for how philosophy can take a non-foundational perspective on normativity.It is then argued that although Rorty did not succeed in explicating normativity without foundations (or authority without authoritarianism), we should take seriously the ambition motivating his project.But taking that ambition seriously may require reconsidering the linguistic turn.
Source: Contemporary Pragmatism
Author: Colin Koopman
Institution: University of Oregon
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: University of Oregon
OpenAlex ID: W2105499358