Rorty and the Problems of Truth and Objectivity

Subject Areas : Philosophy

NabiAllah Souleimani ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2012-07-28 Accepted : 2012-12-09 Published : 2013-02-19

Keywords: Rorty, discoverable, making, Truth, Fact, realism,

Abstract :

Rorty, as an analytic philosopher, is working in the context ofpostmodern thought and pragmatism. His main attempt has been toanalyze of the traditional problems of philosophy. Based on his readingof the history of philosophy “truth”, as the original genre in the historyof philosophy, has been regarded as the correspondence betweenbeliefs in our minds and fact out there. The duty of philosophers was toreveal the criteria of correspondence. Rorty’s interpretation of thistraditional view could be summarized as the slogan "Truth wasdiscoverable not making". While, according to Rorty there is not anyway to describe the facts without the use of the language. Thereforetruth cannot operate independent of human use of language. Hence"Truth is making not discoverable". This article investigates whetherRorty can explain their beliefs in a purely linguistic manner. Theanswer is that although he rejects Truth and Objectivity in traditionalmeaning, but he cannot deny Objectivity altogether.

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