Steve said to dmb:
...As far as I know, you haven't read anything by Rorty beyond the quotes of
your favorite Rorty critics. Why not start from a position of ignorance instead
of from the preconception that Rorty is the great Satan? Why not start with
questions about Rorty instead of criticisms of Rorty? Why not try to understand
what Rorty is actually saying? It seems very important to you to disagree with
Rorty, why not actually read him and try to understand him so you will know
what it is you are committed in advance to disagree with?
dmb says:
I really don't know where you got the idea that my complaints are preconceived
or that I was committed to disagree in advance. If it weren't for the fact that
Rorty fans bring his views to the table here, I would almost certainly think
and write about something else. Anyway, why are you even surprised by my
dislike of Rorty? Here, he has been used to for nothing except to undermine the
MOQ. In the world of pragmatism he is wildly controversial. On one hand the
pragmatists are grateful for the publicity he's brought to the school of
thought, but they're also saddened that he seems to have spawned an army of
"relativists" and "pretentious dilettantes". I kid you not. Those are the terms
professionals use.
Why is does my dislike of Rorty has to be caused by ignorance or malice? Why
can't I disagree with him for the same reasons that other pragmatists do?
(Haack, Hickman and Hildebrand) What's so ignorant or sinister about that?
There are real reasons and those reasons are explained in great detail by
genuinely concerned people who are in a position to understand what's at stake.
If that's not good enough for you, then you're way too picky.
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