In my roughly 10 years of philosophical education — four in college, one in a master’s program and five as a PhD candidate — it never occurred to me that Plato was a person. Of course, I read and ...
The noted philosopher Richard Rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. Rorty held positions at Princeton University, the ...