| Richard Rorty  AKA Richard McKay Rorty
Born: 4-Oct-1931
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 8-Jun-2007
Location of death: Stanford, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - Pancreatic
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Philosopher Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Military service: US Army (1957-58) Father: James Hancock Rorty
Mother: Winifred Raushenbush
Wife: Amelie Oksenberg (m. 1954, div. 1972, one son)
Wife: Mary Varney (m. 1972, one son, one daughter)
University: University of Chicago
University: PhD, Yale University (1956)
Professor: Philosophy, Wellesley College (1958-61)
Professor: Philosophy, Princeton University (1961-82)
Professor: University of Virginia
Professor: Comparative Literature, Stanford University (1998-2007)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Bill Bradley for President
Campaign for America's Future
MoveOn.org
Roosevelt Institute Advisory Board
MacArthur Fellowship
Author of books:
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979, philosophy)
Consequences of Pragmatism (1982, philosophy)
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989, philosophy)
Objectivity, Relativism and Truth: Philosophical Papers I (1991, philosophy)
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers II (1991, philosophy)
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America (1998)
Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers III (1998, philosophy)
Philosophy and Social Hope (2000, philosophy)
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