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A reader lechman wrote here that all scientists and engineers would reject rortys ideas as extremely sloppy and antiscientific
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Really its just not much of concern to science whether scientists believe themselves to be revealing metaphysical truth or nottheyll still get their work done
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Many modern people stuck in circular thinking attempt to justify science with scientific premises
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Even the biggest advocates of science in philosophy realize that thats not tenable
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Published in 1990 objectivity relativism and truth ort is the first installment in the 4volume richard rorty philosophical papers collection published by cambridge university press
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Ort contains approximately a dozen essays originally published by rorty in the 1980s
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His pragmatic view of philosophy posits that knowledge results from conversation and convention rather than from the uncovering of ahistoric truth in other words knowledge is created not than discovered
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While sharing a common pragmatic theme the essays are roughly divided between those that deal with questions of language and epistemology and those that are concerned with sociopolitical issues