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[Doug Millison]

"But Rorty does not pause to consider whether, in the
salons of pragmatism, into which truth is denied
entry, the question "Is he honest and curious?" must
go the same way as the question "Does he love truth?"
And he does not pause to consider whether, while the
question "Does he love truth?" may indeed be
intractable in general, it is highly tractable when
the truth in question becomes concrete. If you have
not committed a crime, you would prefer to fall into
the hands of a police department that loves the truth
about who commits crimes, and loves it more than it
loves just coping by cozying up to the judges and
juries who can give it a successful prosecution
record."

from a review by Simon Winchester
of Rorty and His Critics
edited by Robert B. Brandom
(Blackwell, 410 pp., $29.95) 

http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082001/blackburn082001_print.html

...interesting review of a book bysomebody whose name
has graced this forum more than once.



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