From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 19 2003 - 23:20:52 BST
Scott,
I know it doesn't matter for your argument what the context of "truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with", but, I think its in "Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism" in Consequences of Pragmatism. I think. I remember reading that blip again recently and I just re-read that article, which is a good one for what Rorty thinks about Platt's assertions.
Platt said:
Does Rorty offer any evidence that we can "increase the dynamic in our lives" (whatever that means) by what we can learn from other cultures?
Matt:
I know Platt doesn't actually care what Rorty says, but one essay Platt is looking for is called "Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens" which if I remember correctly was first given at a Philosophy East/West conference in Hawaii under a different title. It was also reprinted in "Cultural Otherness: Correspondence with Richard Rorty" which has the correspondence between Rorty and Anindita Niyogi Balslev, who was at the conference where Rorty spoke.
Learning from others, of differing cultures or otherwise, is incidently one of the main themes of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.
DMB said:
Matt is fond of linking Platt's view with mine, but we actually have very little in common and this case highlights the difference. We both dislike Rorty, but it is usually for different reasons. Platt tends to stress morality and likes to voice the angry-white-guy conservative objections.
Matt:
Yeah, I know. I'm fond of it because I know how much it must annoy the both of you. I mean, how often do I get the chance to annoy both of you at once?
Oh wait, everything I say annoys the two of you. Oh wait, there I go linking the two of you, again.
Actually, I agree that both of your crticisms come from different places (and that the two of you especially disagree on politics), but I link the two of you as a rhetorical clue: you may come from different places, but I think the consequences are generally the same.
DMB said:
Is the MOQ is a philosophically interesting theory of truth or is Rorty bored?
Matt:
No, no, that was me. I'm bored.
Matt
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