Richard Rorty

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:philosopher
gptkbp:alma_mater gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkb:Yale_University
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkb:University_of_Virginia
gptkbp:born October 4, 1931
gptkbp:children gptkb:James_Rorty
gptkb:David_Rorty
gptkbp:died June 8, 2007
gptkbp:famous_quote " The only thing that can be said to be true is that which is useful."
" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
" The aim of philosophy is not to find the truth but to create it."
" We should be more concerned with the future than with the past."
" Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with."
gptkbp:field gptkb:literary_analysis
gptkb:political_theory
gptkb:philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Richard Rorty
gptkbp:influence gptkb:postmodernism
pragmatism
analytic philosophy
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Robert_Brandom
gptkb:Hilary_Putnam
gptkb:Richard_Posner
gptkb:Cornel_West
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:John_Dewey
gptkb:Wilfrid_Sellars
gptkb:Martin_Heidegger
gptkbp:known_for pragmatism
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notable_works gptkb:Philosophy_and_the_Mirror_of_Nature
Achieving Our Country
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Mary_Rorty
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_Rawls
gptkb:Ludwig_Wittgenstein
gptkb:Nietzsche
gptkb:William_James
gptkb:Oberlin_College
gptkb:The_New_York_Review_of_Books
gptkb:New_School_for_Social_Research
gptkb:Reed_College
gptkb:Antonio_Gramsci
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:postmodernism
gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkb:German_Empire
gptkb:John_Stuart_Mill
gptkb:Oxford
gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche
gptkb:Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
gptkb:Herbert_Marcuse
gptkb:Robert_P._George
gptkb:The_New_Republic
gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
gptkb:Swarthmore_College
gptkb:George_Lakoff
gptkb:The_New_School_for_Social_Research
gptkb:Alfred_Tarski
gptkb:The_Nation
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4