Steve said:
This is why Putnam and Davidson never wanted to call
themselves pragmatists. Knowledge as justified true belief
is then reduced to justified belief. Putnam thought that
this theory of truth is essential to pragmatism and didn't
consider himself or Rorty as pragmatists for this reason. His
complaint that Rorty was not really a pragmatist was a
criticism of pragmatism as Putnam understood it and not a
criticism of Rorty (though he also had some criticisms to
level against Rortianism as well).
Matt:
You mean just Davidson above. Putnam did consider himself
a pragmatist, and the above is what Davidson thought of
pragmatism.
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