Problematizing Objectivity in Richard Rorty’s Neopragmatism

Volume 13|Issue 53| Summer 2025 |Articles

Abstract

​The paper examines Richard Rorty's neopragmatic approach, which he brought into line with his political and moral aspirations upon eliminating the traditional problems of epistemology as based on ostensibly establishing the legitimacy of knowledge by clarifying what does and does not belong to the field of objectivity. This paper explores the following questions: Is the function of philosophy limited to considering the legitimacy of ideas on the basis of their objectivity? Is it possible to shift the course of philosophy beyond theory and towards what is known as post-objectivity? What role can philosophy play in human practice? How might one liberate the act of philosophizing from the dilemmas of a theoretical foundation based on the duality of subject and object, which are mediated by methodology, by turning towards human action in its encounter with that which is human? This new style of philosophizing, presented by Rorty, helps us change our view of philosophical practice and the traditional concepts associated with it – especially the concept of objectivity.

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Mahmoud El Ogri (Corresponding Author)

​Researcher and PhD student under the supervision of Dr Ahmed Ferhane, Laboratory of Humanity, Societies, and Values, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra – Morocco​.

​Professor of Higher Education, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra - Morocco.​

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