Epistemological Ambivalence:

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" Epistemological Ambivalence: "
Terrence Reynolds

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069253
Doc. No	:	LA112882
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341473‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Terrence Reynolds
Title & Author	:	Epistemological Ambivalence: [Article] : Richard Rorty on Religion and Public Discourse\ Terrence Reynolds
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1
Page No	:	88–109
Abstract	:	The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as ‘conversation-stoppers’ and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty’s position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology as well as his insistence on the humility and virtues that should attend the collective pursuit of the social good. It suggests that there are two Rortys at work and that his epistemological ambivalence undermines the force of his argument. The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as ‘conversation-stoppers’ and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty’s position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology as well as his insistence on the humility and virtues that should attend the collective pursuit of the social good. It suggests that there are two Rortys at work and that his epistemological ambivalence undermines the force of his argument.
Descriptor	:	Deweyian progressivism
Descriptor	:	epistemology
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	Philosophy, Theology Science
Descriptor	:	postmodernism
Descriptor	:	Practical Theology
Descriptor	:	public square
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	Wittgenstein
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341473‬