Facts, Truefacts, Factoids; or, Why Are They Still Saying Those Nasty Things about Epistemology?

Yearbook of English Studies | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

'Epistemology still looks classy to weak textualists'. (Richard Rorty) 'Vulgar pragmatism [is] an unedifying prospect. [. . .] There could be no honest intellectual work in Rorty's post-epistemological utopia'. (Susan Haack)

Those are both pretty nasty things to say. On the one hand, who would want to be thought of as a 'weak' textualist and therefore to be accused of thinking good things about epistemology because of failing to be a 'strong' textualist?[1] On the other, who would want to be a 'vulgar' pragmatist advocating a cynical and hypocritical ...

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