About
Academic with interests in contemporary analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Before Fame
He attended the University of Chicago and Yale University.
Trivia
He was very much into poetry. He wrote Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature in 1979 and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity in 1989.
Family Life
He married Mary Varney Rorty.
Associated With
He did not agree with Friedrich Nietzsche in his belief that philosophy can only be distinguished in private.
