"This book is stimulating and challenging. The topics covered are diverse enough to capture the attention
of almost any academic audience. Rorty introduces a variety of fresh and exciting ideas."
--Arnold Lorenzo Farr, disClosure
Cambridge University Press Website, September, 2003
Summary
In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about
universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural
sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather
than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic
politics to philosophy.