Essays about: "Richard Rorty"

Found 3 essays containing the words Richard Rorty.

  1. 1. Achievements of the Rational : A comparative argumentation analysis of witch hunts and conspiracy theories

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Emil Björk; [2023]
    Keywords : Rationality; Debate; Vocabulary; Human achievement; Normative development; QAnon; Witch hunts;

    Abstract : According to philosopher Richard Rorty, rational debate and reasoning has limited impact on normative development of society. This seems to be at odds with modern design of democratic institutions, which are built to facilitate rational debate. Through a comparative study of two cases, the present paper examines Rorty’s theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Rita Rubnell Spolander; [2019]
    Keywords : value; metaphysics; philosophy of language; philosophical anthropology; conceptual schemes; primitive reactions; agency; värde; metafysik; språkfilosofi; filosofisk antropologi; primitiva reaktioner; agens;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at formulating a human rights justification based on the assumption that disbelief in human rights is found in communicative grounds, rather than some sort of unreasonable evil. I first identify what I believe to be a flaw in the communicative strength of existing human rights justifications in explaining why rights should be. READ MORE

  4. 3. Putnam's Moral Realism

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Björn Persson; [2013]
    Keywords : Moral realism; moral epistemology; relativism; idealized rational acceptability; ideal terminus; fact-value distinction; Hilary Putnam; Richard Rorty;

    Abstract : Moral realism is the view that there are such things as moral facts. Moral realists have attempted to combat the skeptical problem of relativism, which is that the truth of an ethical value judgment is often, or always, subjective, that is, relative to the parties it involves. READ MORE