...Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Dewey, which Rorty himself seeks to extend, is "relativist." It affirms truth as, in James's phrase, "what it is better for...are successful in helping us do what we want to do. 51 Rorty understands his own philosophical work as in part a generalization of Kuhn's distinction between...

...out the space where the discussion of values as values will be necessary: ... I interpret Sellar's attack on "givenness" and Quine's attack on necessity...are successful in helping us do what we want to do. 7 There is, however, very little in the book which gives any content or context to expressions like...

...philosophy and the mirror of nature, whose ideas I take to be symptomatic of today's philosophy, and I read that "the notion of 'accurate representation' is simply...to those beliefs which are successful in helping us to do what we want to do" (Rorty, 1979). Further on, the book says that "we understand knowledge when...

...conversations that aim at nothing more than "edification." "The notion of 'accurate representation,'" he says, "is simply an automatic and empty compliment which...which are successful in helping us do what we want to do."45 The immediate target of Rorty 's campaign on behalf of edifying conversation is none other than...

...the ground of the representamen (2.228). RR: The notion of "accurate representation" is simply an ... empty compliment which we pay to those beliefs which...are successful in helping us do what we want to do (PMN, p. 10). CSP: It is as though a man should address a land surveyor as follows: "You do not make...

...James' expression as "what it is better for us to believe." Putting this less provocatively, Rorty says, "they show us that the notion of 'accurate representation'...are successful in helping us do what we want to do." 59 Justification, he argues, has always been behavioristic and holistic, and language enables us not...

...James' expression as "what it is better for us to believe." Putting this less provocatively, Rorty says, "they show us that the notion of 'accurate representation'...which are successful in helping us do what we want to do."5" Justification, he argues, has always been behavioristic and holistic, and language enables us...

...fundamentally misguided. " 'Accurate representation,' " philosopher Richard Rorty rather glibly declares, "is simply an automatic and empty compliment which...to those beliefs which are successful in helping us to do what we want to do." 13 Accordingly Rorty urges his fellow philosophers to abandon the entire...

...human sciences. It assumes a notion of "accurate representation" that is, as Richard Rorty suggests, "simply an automatic and empty compliment which we...are successful in helping us do what we want to do" (1979:10). This conception of objectivity has to be refitted to modern size. Even the simplest of behaviors...

...extend. I argue that when extended in a certain way they let us see truth as in James's phrase "what is better for us to believe" rather than as "the accurate...to those beliefs which are successful in helping us to do what we want to do.2 The "lines of thought" that Rorty extends are intended to undermine the...