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Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty is an American postmodernist philosopher. He belongs to the Pragmatist school of philosophy. His critics believe him to be a moral relativist.

Major works include Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency, Irony and Solidarity; Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical papers, Volume I; Philosophy and Social Hope.

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http://www.stanford.edu/~rrorty/

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