This philosopher argued that giraffes are as socially constructed as bank accounts, for even if giraffes exist causally independently of humans, we define what they are.
This philosopher argued that giraffes are as socially constructed as bank accounts, for even if giraffes exist causally independently of humans, we define what they are. He described thinkers who are skeptical of epistemology and oppose the normalization of discourse as "edifying" rather than "systematic" philosophers. He argued against defining knowledge as an accurate representation of reality and for defining it as "what it is better for us to believe" in a work urging us to abandon the title (*) "ocular metaphor". This author of Philosophy and Social Hope wrote that Proust overcame the shame of his own finitude by ironizing his "final vocabulary" in a work whose third title concept is achieved by extending our conception of "we" to include others. For 10 points, name this contemporary American pragmatist philosopher of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.
This philosopher argued that giraffes are as socially constructed as bank accounts, for even if giraffes exist causally independently of humans, we define what they are.
Richard (McKay) Rorty