FEB 10

RR foreword, preface, 1

1. The ultimate goal and aim of pragmatism is what, according to Rorty?

2. How is Rorty at one with Kant?

3. Rorty says for James and Dewey the only goal was what? 

4. What does Rorty want to teach us, according to Robert Brandom? And who do you think he means by "us"? Do you think WJ wanted to teach us the same thing?

5. What are norms, for Rorty, and how do they relate to reality (and Reality)? Do you understand and accept Rorty's upper/lower case distinction?

6. What of the original Enlightenment did Rorty applaud? Do you?

7. What in Plato and Christianity does Rorty call morally ambiguous?

8. What does Rorty say Dewey and Nietzsche simultaneously turned their backs on, and why? But what difference sharply distinguishes them?

9. What does Rorty say his version of pragmatism mediates and replaces?

10. Dewey, like James, hoped each new generation would try to do what? Is that a worthy and reasonable hope? What did Peirce, James, and Dewey "combine"? What was James more interested in than either of the other two?

11. James approvingly cited Papini's description of what, in making what point? 

12. What did Dewey say was the proper task of future philosophy?

13. What do his biographers agree was central to the formation of Dewey's mature thought? To what need related to his father does Rorty think we owe the pragmatist theory of truth? What is that theory's underlying motive?

14. Dewey's stories are always stories of what kind of progress?

15. James rejects what Clifford-like view?