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Rorty (1982) Method, Social Science, Social Hope

Rorty, Richard (1982): "Method, Social Science, Social Hope", in Consequence of Pragmatism (Essays: 1972-1980), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 191-210. Revised version of a paper written for a conference on "Values and the Social" held at the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. First published in The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, XI (1981): 569-588.

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Rorty, Richard
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1982

Rorty explores the issue of method in social sciences, how it came to be equated with "objectivity", "rationality" and "rigor". He is expressing some concerns about the "hermeneutic turn" choosing Dewey against Foucault. 

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