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Thursday, April 10, 2003

# Posted 10:40 AM by Patrick Belton  

RORTY AS A PRAGMATIST: Cambridge philosophy don Simon Blackburn situates Rorty's work here within the pragmatist tradition of Dewey and James - i.e., the mostly American philosophical tradition which seeks to bypass arguments about whether statements are indeed truly representative of the world by substituting a criterion of whether they are useful for human projects (though the human project of pragmatism does however turn out to have its problems).

Personal sidenote: disappointingly enough, I discovered crestfallen on my arrival at Oxford that my donnish advisors did not adequately appreciate the humor in being called "Don Yuen" or "Don Paul."
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