What's the Use of Truth?
Richard Rorty and Pascal Engel
January, 2007
Cloth, 96 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14014-0
$18.95
/ £12.95
"Necessary for serious philosophy collections." — Booklist
"Richard Rorty and Pascal Engel's exchange about truth starts off in university tweed and ends up in a street fight." — Bruce Krajewski, author of Gadamer's Repercussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics
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About the Author
Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books are An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion and What's the Use of Truth?Pascal Engel is ordinary professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Geneva, after having taught at the Sorbonne. He is the author of The Norm of Truth, Ramsey, Truth and Success, and Truth, and of books in French on Davidson, the philosophy of the mind, and analytic philosophy. His present work is focused on epistemology.
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