Rorty, Pragmatism, and Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

One of Richard Rorty's legacies is to have put a Jamesian version of pragmatism on the contemporary philosophical map. Part of his argument has been that pragmatism and analytic philosophy are set against each other, with pragmatism almost having been killed off by the reigning analytic philosophy. The argument of this paper is that there is a better and more interesting reading of both the history of pragmatism and the history of analytic philosophy.

Keywords

• William James
• analytic philosophy
• history of pragmatism
• Peirce
• logical Empiricism