Hi Arlo Sad news, I owe much to Richard, a provocative, creative and persuasive writer, who was well worth getting to know, despite the problems I have come to recognise in the last 10 years.
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "ARLO J BENSINGER JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 3:25 PM Subject: [MD] Rorty News > Hi All, > > David Granger just brought to my attention that Richard Rorty, whose name > is > frequently brought up on our forum, has passed away. > > "Richard Rorty, the leading American philosopher and heir to the > pragmatist > tradition, passed away on Friday, June 8. > > He was Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Stanford > University. In > April the American Philosophical Society awarded him the Thomas Jefferson > Medal. The prize citation reads: "In recognition of his influential and > distinctively American contribution to philosophy and, more widely, to > humanistic studies. His work redefined knowledge 'as a matter of > conversation > and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature' and > thus > redefined philosophy itself as an unending, democratically disciplined, > social > and cultural activity of inquiry, reflection, and exchange, rather than an > activity governed and validated by the concept of objective, extramental > truth." (From www.telospress.com) > > Arlo > > moq_discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
