By Crispin Sartwell Richard Rorty, who died in 2007, was often called the most famous philosopher of the late-20th century writing in English. That’s not necessarily impressive to the world at large, as most English-speaking people of the late-20th century probably couldn’t have named a single contemporary philosopher. But within academia, he was as famous […]

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