Truth and Progress
Introduction Part I. Truth and Some Philosophers: 1. Is truth a goal of inquiry?: Donald Davidson vs. Crispin Wright 2. Hilary Putnam and the relativist menace 3. John Searle on realism and relativism 4. Charles Taylor on truth 5. Daniel Dennett on intrinsicality 6. Robert Brandom on social practices and representations 7. The very idea of human answerability to the world: John McDowell's Version of Empiricism 8. Anti-sceptical weapons: Michael Williams vs. Donald Davidson Part II. Moral Progress: Towards more Inclusive Communities: 9. Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality 10. Rationality and cultural difference 11. Feminism and pragmatism 12. The end of Leninism, Havel and social hope Part III. The Role of Philosophy in Human Progress: 13. The historiography of philosophy: four genres 14. The contingency of philosophical problems: Michael Ayers on Locke 15. Dewey between Hegel and Darwin 16. Habermas, Derrida and the functions of philosophy 17. Derrida and the philosophical tradition.