Sunday, November 21, 2021

Richard Rorty's lectures on "Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism"

Robert Brandom has uploaded videos of Richard Rorty's ten lectures "Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism", delivered at the University of Girona, Spain, in 1996. The lectures have been published in a book earlier this year (edited by Eduardo Mendieta and with a foreword by Robert Brandom). [A preview here]

"Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism" PART 1


Eight lectures:

1. Is knowledge the most distinctively human capacity (0:02:18)

2. Pragmatism as romantic utilitarianism (1:41:24)

3. Is the topic of truth relevant to democratic politics? (2:36:59)

4. Is reason unified by universalistic presuppositions? (3:34:59)

5. Introduction to McDowell's book (4:23:19)

6. Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson (5:16:24)

7. Pan-relationalism, a vision of a world without substances, part I (7:12:35)

8. Pan-relationalism, a vision of a world without substances, part I (8:13:30)


"Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism" PART 2.


Two lectures:

9. The distinction between morality and prudence (0:00.02)

10. Justice as a larger loyality (1:53:00)


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