Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty

Author：Rosa M. Calcaterra

Publisher: Brill | Rodopi

Year: 2019

Contents

1. From Pragmatism to Analytic Philosophy and Vice Versa

1. Between Far and Recent Pasts

2. Virtues and Limits of Analytic Philosophy

3. The Invitation to Post-philosophy

2. Linguistic Pragmatism

1. The Banality of the Language-Reality Relationship: Features of the

Critique of Representationalism

2. The Reasons for Linguistic Pragmatism

3. Questions on Linguistic Pragmatism

4. Naturalism and ‘deep humanism’ 

5. Davidson’s Importance

3. Truth and Justification

1. A Map of Modern and Contemporary Epistemology

2. Reasons and Causes

3. Non-reductive Naturalism

4. A New Protagorean Move

4. Historicism and the Aesthetic Challenge

1. Objectivity and Solidarity

2. The Difficulties of the ‘us’

3. Meliorism and the Aesthetic Challenge

5. Knowing Ourselves and Recognizing Others

1. Deletions and Restorations of the Self: Historical-Theoretical Steps

2. Personal Identity, Irony and Sociality

3. Feelings and Reason

4. Feminism without Myths  

6. Contingency and Normativity. Lines of a New Pragmatic Anthropology

1. Reticular Normativity

2. Norms in ‘Linguistic Pragmatism’: Drawing on Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Davidson

3. Linguistic Agents and Freedom as Possibility

4. Postmodern Tychism: Overcoming the Logical-Empirical Divide

Regarding Normativity