Manifesto of a passionate moderate : unfashionable essays
Deploying analytic skills on some of the cultural/social debates of recent years, including relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, the future of the academy and philosophy itself, the text questions whether there is such a thing as truth and explores how the terms of cultural debate have shifted.
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x, 223 p. ; 24 cm
9780226311364, 9780226311371, 0226311368, 0226311376
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Preface Introduction 1: Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig 2: "We Pragmatists ...": Peirce and Rorty in Conversation 3: As for that phrase "studying in a literary spirit" ... 4: "Dry Truth and Real Knowledge": Epistemologies of Metaphor and Metaphors of Epistemology 5: Puzzling Out Science 6: Science as Social? - Yes and No 7: Knowledge and Propaganda: Reflections of an Old Feminist 8: Multiculturalism and Objectivity 9: Reflections on Relativism: From Momentous Tautology to Seductive Contradiction 10: The best man for the job may be a woman ... and other alien thoughts on affirmative action in the academy 11: Preposterism and Its Consequences Acknowledgments Index
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