The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since. "All too rarely an anth…
The building of a science is in many ways like the building of a cathedral or the building of a city. It is rarely, if ever, a matter of starting on a virgin site and of executing in detail a preconceived plan. More often than not it is a matter of continuous alteration, of repeated destruction and reconstruction. At any time the edifice will display the styles of many ages. This is certainly s…