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2, 2002: 9-35
ISSN 1315-6268
Richard Rorty
Universidad de Stanford
California, Estados Unidos de Amrica
Resumen
Abstract
I shall devote most of this paper to the history and the sociology of
analytic philosophy within the US academy. This will supply the
background for my claim that analytic philosophers have completely
failed to do what they most hoped to do: put philosophy on the sure path
of science. But I shall conclude by saying that the analytic philosophers
who have done most to undermine the scientists pretensions of the
movement have made a permanent, and very valuable, contribution to
philosophy. The moral of this paper will be that both the failure of
analytic philosophy and the history of its auto-criticism give additional
reasons to abandon, once and for all, the very idea that philosophy can be
made into any sort of science. Both elements help us replace the
assumption that philosophy should add bricks to the edifice of knowledge
with the thought that philosophy is, as Hegel said, time held in thought.
Key words: Analytic philosophy, transformative philosophy, antago-
nism.
bezas de las pequeas ligas, de una vez por todas. Un gran cient
fico es quien resuelve un rompecabezas muy grande que ha existi
do por mucho tiempopor qu las planetas se muevan en elipses,
por ejemplo, o la micro estructura de la radioactividad, o la reali
zacin fsica de la codificacin gentica. Un cientfico natural muy
grande puede resolver rompecabezas de una manera que transfor
me todo nuestro concepto de cmo funcionan las cosas. Esta es la
razn por la cual a veces se hace referencia a Einstein como un
"cientfico-filsofo". Su logro se adeca a la definicin de filosofa
de Wilfrid Sellars como una explicacin de cmo las cosas, en el
sentido ms amplio del trmino, se relacionan, en el sentido ms
grande del trmino.