Rorty, Richard McKay (1931–2007)

List of works

Rorty’s output runs to hundreds of articles and grows by a dozen or more items each year, often published in out-of-the-way places. A nearly complete list up to 1994 may be found in Saatkamp’s 1995 work. I have listed his books and a few of the most influential or representative articles that have not, at the time of publication, yet appeared in his books.

	Rorty, R. (1965)‘Mind-Body Identity, Privacy and Categories’, Review of Metaphysics 19 (1): 24–54. (Much anthologized early defence of eliminative materialism with metaphilosophical corollaries.)
	Rorty, R. (1967) The Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays in Philosophical Method, Chicago, IL, and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2nd edn, 1992. (Anthology of metaphilosophical essays by ordinary language and ideal language analytic philosophers; long introduction by Rorty.)
	Rorty, R. (1979) Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (His major work; see §1 above.)
	Rorty, R. (1982a) Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays: 1972–1980), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (‘Essays which might have some interest for readers outside of philosophy’.)
	Rorty, R. (1982b)‘Contemporary Philosophy of Mind’, Synthese 53 (2): 323–348. (Places his views in the context of views of contemporary analytic philosophers.)
	Rorty, R. (1984)‘Diskussion/Discussion: A Reply to Six Critics’, Analyse & Kritik 6: 78–98. (A good example of Rorty’s responses to criticisms.)
	Rorty, R. (1987)‘Thugs and theorists: A Reply to Bernstein’, Political Theory 15 (4): 564–580. (Defence of Rorty’s anti-Marxist social democratic liberalism.)
	Rorty, R. (1989) Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Lectures on language, selfhood and politics plus interpretations of other writers.)
	Rorty, R. (1991a) Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, vol. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Papers, 1980–89, dealing with issues and figures within analytic philosophy, especially Davidson.)
	Rorty, R. (1991b) Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Papers, 1980–89, dealing with Heidegger, Derrida and Foucault.)
	Rorty, R. (1993a)‘Feminism, ideology, and deconstruction: a pragmatist view’, Hypatia 8 (Spring): 96–103. (What Rorty thinks pragmatism can contribute to feminism.)
	Rorty, R. (1993b)‘Putnam and the relativist menace’, Journal of Philosophy 90 (9): 443–461. (An attempt to settle some differences with Putnam.)
	Rorty, R. (1994)‘Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions?’, Academe 80 (6): 52–63. (Consequences of anti-foundationalism for academic freedom.)
	Rorty, R. (1996)‘Who are we? Moral Universalism and Economic Triage’, Diogenes 44 (1): 5–15. (Consequences of ethnocentrism for the politics of rich and poor.)

References and further reading

	Geras, N. (1995) Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty, London: Verso. (Criticism of Rorty’s ethnocentrism.)
	Hall, D.L. (1994) Richard Rorty: Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism, Albany NY: State University of New York Press. (Good survey of Rorty’s philosophy.)
	Kolenda, K. (1990) Rorty’s Humanistic Pragmatism: Philosophy Democratized, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida Press. (Sympathetic exposition of Rorty’s philosophy.)
	Malachowski, A. (1990) Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (and Beyond), Oxford: Blackwell. (Articles, mostly attacking Rorty’s views; good bibliography.)
	Saatkamp, H.J., Jr (1995) Rorty & Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics, Nashville, TN, and London: Vanderbilt University Press. (Articles, mostly attacking Rorty’s views, with Rorty’s responses; good bibliography.)