In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of Objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community.
The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy..
The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method.
In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of Objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community