[MD] DMB and Rorty

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Matt,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Matt Kundert
<pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Steve said:
> This is why Putnam and Davidson never wanted to call
> themselves pragmatists.  Knowledge as justified true belief
> is then reduced to justified belief. Putnam thought that
> this theory of truth is essential to pragmatism and didn't
> consider himself or Rorty as pragmatists for this reason. His
> complaint that Rorty was not really a pragmatist was a
> criticism of pragmatism as Putnam understood it and not a
> criticism of Rorty (though he also had some criticisms to
> level against Rortianism as well).
>
> Matt:
> You mean just Davidson above.  Putnam did consider himself
> a pragmatist, and the above is what Davidson thought of
> pragmatism.


I'm basing my claim about Putnam on this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlrEbffVVjM


At 3:40 Putnam says, "I don't call myself a pragmatist. For one thing,
I don't like the pragmatist's theory of truth which they were too
proud of."