Packet 12: Bonus 10
This philosopher argued that literature “helps us become less cruel” in a chapter analyzing Vladimir Nabokov titled “The Barber of Kasbeam.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this American philosopher who railed against analytic philosophy’s focus on pseudo-problems in a 1979 book that favors “epistemological behaviorism” over theories in which the mind reflects reality.
ANSWER: Richard Rorty [or Richard McKay Rorty] (“The Barber of Kasbeam” is from Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Rorty argues for “epistemological behaviorism” in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.)
[10e] In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Rorty claims that ironists of an ideology with this name have no answer for the question “why not be cruel?” This ideology’s “classical” form advocates for free markets.
ANSWER: liberalism [accept word forms like liberals; accept liberal ironists; accept classical liberalism]
[10h] Rorty uses this philosopher’s definition of a liberal as one who recognizes cruelty as the summum malum of political life. This philosopher tried to “give injustice its due” in works like Ordinary Vices.
ANSWER: Judith Nisse Shklar [or Judith Nisse or Judīte Nisse]
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