Reviews for Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1

The average rating for Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-20 00:00:00 Pat Hazelton Rorty writes in the Preface to this collection that "Readers of my previous books will find little new in this volume. It contains no novel ideas or arguments." But I never minded hearing him constantly reiterate his arguments for non-representationalism or his critique of epistemological realism. You can read two excellent chapters from this book free online. Chapter 2 (without its footnotes) is available here: And a slightly different version of chapter 6 is here: I will definitely reread these essays again someday. 06/01/08 03/12/09 05/02/15

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-10 00:00:00 Wheeler Steffes The philosopher Richard Rorty, who would be 76 tomorrow, died on June 8 of this year of pancreatic cancer, in Palo Alto, California. All of his books, dog-eared, underlined, and well-thumbed, including his most recent one, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007), are on my shelves. Along with a lot of other people, I found Rorty just about the most interesting philosopher in America in the last quarter of the 20th century. I don't propose to tell the whole story here of what Rorty thought, but I want to refer to a couple of his ideas that got me (and others) excited about his thinking. read more ...