{"title":"Rorty and James","authors":"Christopher J. Voparil","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter documents unexplored parallels between the pluralistic, “unfinished” universe heralded by James, and the contingent, linguistically mediated landscape open to endless redescription embraced by Rorty. Both are philosophers of agency who evoke a conception of knowledge in which humans are active participants in the construction of what is right and true. They reject an ethics that appeals to fixed principles, yet nonetheless combine their fallibilism and pluralism with an account of commitment and responsibility that manifests in an acute attentiveness to what James called the “cries of the wounded” and to the obligations that the claims of concrete others place on us. Read alongside James, Rortyan irony emerges as an ethical form of antiauthoritarian fallibilism. The combination of epistemic modesty and willingness to listen and learn from others with an account of ethical responsiveness is a signal contribution of their pragmatisms.","PeriodicalId":142222,"journal":{"name":"Reconstructing Pragmatism","volume":"94 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120875159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rorty and Royce","authors":"Christopher J. Voparil","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the evident lack of pragmatist family resemblance between the “absolute pragmatism” of Josiah Royce and Rorty’s antifoundationalism, historicism, and contingentism, this chapter identifies a shared project of, in Rorty’s parlance, intervening in cultural politics. Three claims are advanced: first, that Royce’s later work can be productively viewed as a series of philosophical interventions in cultural politics; second, that while evidence of Rorty’s engagement with Royce’s thought is scant, drawing on archival material establishes that it exists and was more influential on Rorty than currently appreciated; and, third, that reading Rorty and Royce within the same frame generates insights about the transformative moral resources available to pragmatists—namely, the power of affective ties and ethical commitments exemplified in the notion of loyalty. What results is an approach to questions of justice through the lens of community particularly attuned to those who have been marginalized or excluded.","PeriodicalId":142222,"journal":{"name":"Reconstructing Pragmatism","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116894447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rorty and Peirce","authors":"Christopher J. Voparil","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents a fuller, more accurate picture of Rorty’s early appreciation for and indebtedness to Peirce by establishing that Rorty was, by his own lights, at least for a time, a Peircean realist. This distinctive “Peircean” version of realism illuminates Rorty’s mature positions later expressed via a Davidsonian vocabulary. It also recounts how Rorty’s reading of Peirce’s end of inquiry and normative theory of self-controlled conduct enables him to grasp the dependence of epistemology on ethics and to see philosophical discourse as a rule-governed realm that necessitates choice of vocabulary and hence responsibility. Rorty turns out to be more of a realist, as traditionally understood, and Peirce less of one than we might expect. The “ethically-centered epistemology” aimed at the growth of knowledge Rorty sees in Peirce contrasts sharply with the view dominant among contemporary Peirceans, like Misak and Talisse, preoccupied above all with justification.","PeriodicalId":142222,"journal":{"name":"Reconstructing Pragmatism","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132617978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rorty and Dewey","authors":"Christopher J. Voparil","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter frames Rorty’s interpretation of Dewey as an attempt to reconstruct Dewey to better promote a particular vision of democracy and social change, rather than as a misreading. Rorty radicalizes Dewey’s own reconstruction of philosophy, using Deweyan critiques against him. When he objects to particular elements in Dewey’s work, like the project of constructive metaphysics in Experience and Nature, it is because he believes they get in the way of reconstructing philosophy as an instrument of social change. Rorty’s effort to transcend limitations in Dewey’s conception of philosophy as an instrument of social change deserves to be considered on its own merits. By reading Dewey as giving us an account of inquiry and warrant under conditions of normal discourse and Rorty as focused on abnormal contexts where belief correction proceeds via unwarranted assertions and nonlogical changes in belief, the chapter suggests how pragmatists can learn from them both.","PeriodicalId":142222,"journal":{"name":"Reconstructing Pragmatism","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124984335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Christopher J. Voparil","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter outlines the implications of the book’s overall reinterpretation of Rorty’s relation to the classical pragmatists via the lens of reconstruction. After a brief precis of the accounts of Rorty’s relation to Peirce, James, Dewey, Royce, and Addams in the preceding chapters, it revisits several prevalent criticisms of Rorty in contemporary debates to show how a fuller understanding of Rorty’s relation to classical pragmatism helps mitigate the concerns, including his antirealism, reduction of truth to our peers, alleged relativism, and lack of resources to defeat the arguments of the Nazi. It then sketches the broad contours of a post-Rortyan pragmatism free of partisan allegiances and self-protective impulses, animated by creative energies resulting from working through and beyond his challenges to pragmatists to better realize the aims of moral and epistemic growth toward more just and inclusive communities.","PeriodicalId":142222,"journal":{"name":"Reconstructing Pragmatism","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114786129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rorty and Addams","authors":"Christopher J. Voparil","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605721.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Despite Rorty’s oeuvre containing limited commentary on Jane Addams, this chapter illuminates their distinctive shared contribution to pragmatist ethics: They merge epistemic and ethical priorities to unite sympathetic understanding with the cultivation of social ethical responsibility and orient their ethical projects explicitly toward responsiveness to marginalized or excluded others. Its chief claims are: first, that Rorty can be read as extending Addams’s project of creating a democratic moral community; and second, that a constructive dialogue between Rorty and Addams reveals key points of complementarity that, when taken together, generate a more robust conception of democratic social ethics than Addams’s alone. Reading Rorty alongside Addams elucidates the ethical commitments implicit in his more familiar epistemological critiques, including how Rorty’s understanding of the social practice of justification can be understood as a philosophical defense of Addams’s notion of a “social test.”","PeriodicalId":142222,"journal":{"name":"Reconstructing Pragmatism","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121567300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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