Abstract

The title of this book is misleading. Its topic is pragmatism according to Rorty, and Prado intends only "to consider the new pragmatism, as present in Rorty's views, in one particular but elemental dimension: that of truth". Prado seeks to offer a sympathetic reading of Rorty's attack on the correspondence theory of truth and the key conclusions Rorty draws from this attack: that we have no access to truth other than that found in specific forms of discourse, and that all cognitive endeavors are no more than conversations. Prado then offers some mild criticisms of Rorty.