Comments on: Richard Rorty has died http://brenocon.com/blog/2007/06/richard-rorty-has-died/ cognition, language, social systems; statistics, visualization, computation Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brendan http://brenocon.com/blog/2007/06/richard-rorty-has-died/#comment-36 Brendan Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:42:00 +0000 http://blog.anyall.org/?p=71#comment-36 sounds like you have lots of rad books. i should borrow one sometime

]]> By: MikeLove http://brenocon.com/blog/2007/06/richard-rorty-has-died/#comment-35 MikeLove Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:02:00 +0000 http://blog.anyall.org/?p=71#comment-35 I got into his books in an obsessive way after taking apparently his last class at Stanford.

He goes off the deep end but has an interesting perspective which is generally romantic.

]]> By: Brendan http://brenocon.com/blog/2007/06/richard-rorty-has-died/#comment-34 Brendan Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:39:00 +0000 http://blog.anyall.org/?p=71#comment-34 Thanks for the recommendation. I wouldn’t be too sure that economists read him — tyler cowen just seems really in to philosophy.

]]> By: Shawn http://brenocon.com/blog/2007/06/richard-rorty-has-died/#comment-33 Shawn Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:33:00 +0000 http://blog.anyall.org/?p=71#comment-33 There is already a surprising amount of noise out there about how much of an influence Rorty had or should have had. See, especially, the thread on him at Crooked Timber. Having read some of his stuff, I think that Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature might appeal to you, until the crazy chapter on hermeneutics. I think he later recanted that one, although I’m not 100% on that. He’s made some interesting arguments on topics that I’m interested in, mostly scattered across the above book and several essays. For an interesting perspective, check out this post by Tyler Cowen on Rorty’s impact on economics. It was news to me since I didn’t realize economists read him.

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