A01=John Owens
Alexander MacIntyre
American Philosophy
Aristotle
Author_John Owens
Category=QDTJ
Dewey
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Hilary Putnam
John Searle
liberalism
literary studies
Neopragmatism
philosophy of religion
political theory
pragmatism
pragmatist religion
Putnam
Recognition
religious studies
Representationalism
Richard Rorty
Robert Brandom
Searle
theology
Vattimo
Westphal
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- ISBN 9781498560405
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 153 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance against a background of broad human interests, and knowledge is regarded as part of the active pursuit of a better world. Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics argues that while Rorty’s case is clearly and robustly made, it is fundamentally challenged by the phenomenon of human recognition, the relationship that arises between people when they talk to one another. John Owens demonstrates that recognition, so central to human life, cannot be accommodated within Rorty’s proposals, given that it precisely attributes a reality to others that goes beyond anything a pragmatist framework can offer. It follows that there is more to human interaction than can be explained by Rorty’s pragmatism.
John Owens is lecturer in philosophy at Good Shepherd College, Auckland, New Zealand.
