Rorty, Richard(1931–)
An American philosopher and pragmatist, Rorty is among the most widely discussed and controversial philosophers at the turn of the twenty-first century. A New Yorker by bi...
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American philosopher and man of letters Richard Rorty (born 1931) gave new life to the pragmatist tradition and brought it into the public discussion of democracy and liberalism.Richard Rorty had a ma...
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Richard Rorty is the most widely read, most broadly influential U.S. philosopher of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Beginning with his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty has ...
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Richard Rorty is one of the most widely read living philosophers; yet, few people would want to call themselves "Rortians" or to be considered to be in too much accord with his positions. The foremost...
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Gilbert GudeWASHINGTON (AP) _ Gilbert Gude, a former Maryland Republican congressman and state lawmaker who championed environmental causes that included preserving the Potomac River, has died. He ...
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