期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1989
卷号：14
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：Rchard Rorty is well known for his sophisticated presentation of the idea that systematic philosophy has failed and should be .abandoned. For our purposes here I will call Rorty's position skepticism, though he prefers the term pragmatism. Steven Yates argues that just as the systematic philosopher attempted to step back from human subjectivity and determine the real truth about real reality, so Rorty is attempting to step back and give us objective truth about the history of philosophy, which after all is an aspect of reality too. Rorty's attempt to tell us something objectively true about the history of philosophy is supposed to put him in the same boat with the other philosophers whose efforts to deteimine some important truths he is criticizing. Yates says that Rorty is attempting to give us an objective truth in the very saying that the attempt to achieve objective truth has failed.
