Richard Rorty: A friend of Dan Dennett (and his dreaded scientism : ). A neo-pragmatist. An analytic philosopher who began teaching around the mid-20th-century, he eventually turned against its scientism. Rorty felt that 20th-century analytic thought was going down the wrong track by taking up the same sort of epistemological foundationalist project as Descartes. Rorty saw the Continue Reading …
Lawrence Cahoone on Hegel’s Phenomenology
Here's an audio-only lecture by Lawrence Cahoone: Listen on youtube. Cahoone here emphasizes very different themes than we talked about on the episode, specifically the theistic themes (he characterizes "Spirit" as "pantheistic" or "panentheistic," both of which have been used to describe Spinoza; the former means everything is God, while the latter means everything is Continue Reading …