This section will allow you to look up the different people that Rorty mentions in the book .  This section will be split up alphabetically, with each entry taking you to a separate page.  There you will find biographical information about the person along with pertinent intellectual ideas that Rorty is commenting on.  Also you will find a selected bibliography of primary works by the author and online texts if applicable.  If any corrections need to be made, or addtions that you feel necessary please email  me.

a

Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle

b

Baier, Annette
Bloom, Allan

c

Carnap, Rudolf

d

Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Donald
de Man, Paul
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, Rene
Dewey, John
Dworkin, Ronald

e

Eagleton, Terry
Eco, Umberto
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

f

Fish, Stanley
Foucault, Michel
Frege, Gottlob
Freud, Sigmund

g

Geertz, Clifford

h

Habermas, Juergen
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Hirsch, E. D.
Hook, Sidney
Hume, David
Husserl, Edmund

i
j

James, William

k

Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, Soren
Kuhn, Thomas

l

Locke, John

m

McIntyre, Alasdair
Marx, Karl
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, J. Hillis

n

Nietzsche, Friedrich

o
p

Pierce, Charles Sanders
Plato
Popper, Karl
Posner, Richard
Putnam, Hillary

q

Quine, W. O.

r

Rawls, John
Russell, Bertrand

s

Sartre, Jean-Paul
Searle, John
Sellars, Wilfrid
Strauss, Leo

t
u

Unger, Roberto

v
w

Whitehead, Alfred North
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

x
y
z