Richard Rorty, Kierkegaard, and Wittgenstein challenge the sense of questioning whether our particular concepts are related to the world in an appropriate way, whether we can justify our ways of describing the world as compared with other ways.

Richard Rorty described Strauss as a particular influence in his early studies at the University of Chicago, where Rorty studied a " classical curriculum " under Strauss .< ref > Ryerson, James.

The later development of McDowell's work came more strongly to reflect the influence on him of Rorty and Sellars and, in particular, both Mind and World and McDowell's later Woodbridge lectures focus on a broadly Kantian understanding of intentionality, of the mind's capacity to represent.

Both have been strongly influenced by Richard Rorty, in particular Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature ( 1979 ).

New Institutionalism is often contrasted with " old " or " classical " institutionalism, the latter of which was first articulated in the writings of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and others, and which has been further extrapolated by various philosophers and scholars such as Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Amartya Sen, Donald McCloskey, Warren Samuels, Daniel Bromley, E. J. Mishan, Yngve Ramstad, and others.

Postmodernists and Post-Structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses.

The continuing stream of books on Derrida — over 150 titles since 2000 versus about 25 for John Searle and about 40 for Richard Rorty, for example — indicates no abatement in the popularity of deconstruction in relation to other competing trends in Philosophy.

Though Derrida addressed the American Philosophical Association at least on one occasion in 1988, and was highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, Alexander Nehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic philosophers, such as John Searle and Willard Van Orman Quine, as pseudophilosophy or sophistry.

* “ The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle ’ s Ethics ”, Proceedings of the African Classical Associations xv ( 1980 ), 1-14 ; reprinted in Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle ’ s Ethics ( University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1980 ), pp. 359 – 76

*: References in the article are to a reprint of the preceding two papers, as " Aristotle on Friendship ", in Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Essays on Aristotle's Ethics ( University of California Press, 1980 ) ISBN 0-520-04041-4

* Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Essays on Aristotle's Ethics ( University of California Press, 1980 ) ISBN 0-520-04041-4

* M. Nussbaum & A. O. Rorty, Essays on Aristotle's De Anima.

* Brian P. McLaughlin / Amelie Rorty, Perspectives on self-deception ( California 1988 )

While traditional pragmatism focuses on experience, Rorty centers on language.

Neopragmatists, particularly Rorty and Putnam, draw on the ideas of classical pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.

Later on, his focus was on contemporary work by Elizabeth Anscombe, Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, John Rawls, Philippa Foot, Charles Taylor and Richard Rorty.

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity ( Verso, 1999 ) is a collection of essays that includes his debate with Richard Rorty, as well as series of essays on Derrida, Levinas, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Nancy.

Michel Foucault provides a potent critique in his archaeology of the human sciences, though Habermas and Richard Rorty have both argued that Foucault merely replaces one such system of thought with another.

The self is seen as a " centerless web of beliefs and desires ", and Rorty denies that the subject-matter of the human sciences can be studied in the same ways as we study the subject-matter of the natural sciences.

Some, like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Rorty, are skeptical about subject-centred, universal, or instrumental reason, and even skeptical toward reason as a whole.

Donald Davidson is not usually considered a postmodernist, although he and Rorty have both acknowledged that there are few differences between their philosophies.

Well-known philosophers such as Karl Jaspers, Leo Strauss, Ahmad Fardid, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, William E. Connolly, and Jacques Derrida have all analyzed Heidegger's work.

Hamann, Herder, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Rorty, and many other philosophers have contributed to a debate about what reason means, or ought to mean.

von Wright, Paul Ricoeur, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor ) have ventured to bridge.

Jean-Luc Nancy, Richard Rorty, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Rosalind Krauss, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Duncan Kennedy, Gary Peller, Drucilla Cornell, Alan Hunt, Hayden White, and Alun Munslow are some of the authors who have been influenced by deconstruction.

Such arguments have been expressed by a number of writers, such as Eric Hobsbawm, Todd Gitlin, Michael Tomasky, Richard Rorty, Sean Wilentz, Robert W. McChesney, Bart Landry, and Jim Sleeper.

He has authored over two dozen books, the themes of which pursue a radical alternative to Marxism, and about which American philosopher Richard Rorty said have a " better chance than most to be linked, in the history books, with some such world-transforming event.

* " Deconstructionist Theory " by Richard Rorty

Ultimately, it failed to solve many of the problems with which it was centrally concerned, and after the Second World War, its doctrines increasingly came under attack by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, Willard Van Orman Quine, J. L. Austin, Peter Strawson, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.

Habermas, Lyotard and Rorty are also philosophers who are influenced by Heidegger ’ s interpretation of Nietzsche.

), Deconstruction and Pragmatism, with essays by Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty, and Derrida.

The term " eliminative materialism " was first introduced by James Cornman in 1968 while describing a version of physicalism endorsed by Rorty.

The Blackwell dictionary of Western philosophy ( 2004 ) defines " Neo-pragmatism " as follows: " A postmodern version of pragmatism developed by the American philosopher Richard Rorty and drawing inspiration from authors such as John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Wilfrid Sellars, Quine, and Jacques Derrida.

* Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty ( 1979 )

He received his bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from Macalester College and his doctorate in 1969 from Princeton University with a dissertation directed by Richard Rorty.

The Blackwell dictionary of Western philosophy ( 2004 ) defines " Neo-pragmatism " as follows: " A postmodern version of pragmatism developed by the American philosopher Richard Rorty and drawing inspiration from authors such as John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Wilfrid Sellars, Quine, and Jacques Derrida.

Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics, edited by Herman J. Saatkamp ( Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995 ).

Another contemporary philosopher, Amélie Rorty ( 1980 ) has tackled the problem by distilling out akrasia's many forms.

* ( 2005 ) The Future of Religion, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2005

Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala ( with contributions from U. Eco, C. Taylor, R. Rorty, J-L. Nancy, F. Savater and many others ), Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.

Habermas engaged in regular correspondence with Richard Rorty and a strong sense of philosophical pragmatism may be felt in his theory ; thought which frequently traverses the boundaries between sociology and philosophy.