''Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers: v.4'' is a 2007 book by the philosopher

Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic ...

. A compilation of selected philosophical papers written by Rorty between 1997 and 2007, it complements three previous selections of his papers.

Summary

Rorty explores the relation between philosophy and

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups ...

. Topics covered include: # the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, # the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress, # the notion of 'moral identity', # Wittgenstein's claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic in nature, # the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy # the mistaken idea that philosophers should find the 'place' of such things as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles.

References

*Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Cambridge University Press, 2007. . . 2007 non-fiction books Books by Richard Rorty Books about cultural politics English-language books {{poli-philo-book-stub