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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:philosopher
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gptkbp:alma_mater
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gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkb:Yale_University
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkb:University_of_Virginia
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gptkbp:birth_date
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1931-10-04
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:James_Rorty
gptkb:David_Rorty
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gptkbp:death_date
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2007-06-08
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gptkbp:famous_quote
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" The only thing that can be said to be true is that which is useful."
" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
" We should be more concerned with the future than with the past."
" Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with."
" There is no such thing as a 'real' world."
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gptkbp:field
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pragmatism
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Rorty, Richard
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gptkbp:influence
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pragmatism
post-analytic philosophy
conversationalism
neo-pragmatism
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Richard_Dawkins
gptkb:Hilary_Putnam
gptkb:Daniel_Dennett
gptkb:Cornel_West
gptkb:Martha_Nussbaum
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:John_Dewey
gptkb:Wilfrid_Sellars
gptkb:Martin_Heidegger
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gptkbp:known_for
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postmodern philosophy
critique of traditional epistemology
anti-essentialism
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:Philosophy_and_the_Mirror_of_Nature
Achieving Our Country
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:Professor
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gptkbp:spouse
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Christine Rorty
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gptkbp:website
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http://www.richardrorty.com
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Marie_Durkheim
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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