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Redescribing Final Vocabularies. A Rortian Picture of Identity and Selfhood

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Fecha
2020
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Associazione Culturale Pragma
Revista
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, vol. 2020 Associazione Culturale Pragma
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Richard Rorty in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity presents the character of the liberal ironist. An ironist is a person that has pressing and continuing doubts about her ?final vocabulary.? A final vocabulary is a set of words that one uses to justify and narrate oneself. An interesting question is why words, and not beliefs, are used by Rorty to characterize someone?s identity. In this paper I take a step back from liberal ironism and focus on the notion of ?final vocabulary? and its role on... Richard Rorty in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity presents the character of the liberal ironist. An ironist is a person that has pressing and continuing doubts about her ?final vocabulary.? A final vocabulary is a set of words that one uses to justify and narrate oneself. An interesting question is why words, and not beliefs, are used by Rorty to characterize someone?s identity. In this paper I take a step back from liberal ironism and focus on the notion of ?final vocabulary? and its role on a Rortian picture of moral identity. In order to do this, I explore it alongside concepts from the field of sociolinguistics and from other pragmatist theories of selfhood. I claim that Rorty presents important insights for a pragmatic naturalist conception of our moral identities.
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PRAGMATISMETHICSINFERENTIALISMPHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE