[MD] Rorty News

[David M]

Hi Arlo

Sad news, I owe much to Richard, a provocative, creative
and persuasive writer, who was well worth getting to know, despite
the problems I have come to recognise in the last 10 years.

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ARLO J BENSINGER JR" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: [MD] Rorty News


> Hi All,
>
> David Granger just brought to my attention that Richard Rorty, whose name 
> is
> frequently brought up on our forum, has passed away.
>
> "Richard Rorty, the leading American philosopher and heir to the 
> pragmatist
> tradition, passed away on Friday, June 8.
>
> He was Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Stanford 
> University. In
> April the American Philosophical Society awarded him the Thomas Jefferson
> Medal. The prize citation reads: "In recognition of his influential and
> distinctively American contribution to philosophy and, more widely, to
> humanistic studies. His work redefined knowledge 'as a matter of 
> conversation
> and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature' and 
> thus
> redefined philosophy itself as an unending, democratically disciplined, 
> social
> and cultural activity of inquiry, reflection, and exchange, rather than an
> activity governed and validated by the concept of objective, extramental
> truth."  (From www.telospress.com)
>
> Arlo
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