The Richard Rorty Society was founded in 2014 to promote study of the work and life of Richard Rorty (1931-2007), and to encourage and support scholarship and other writing inspired by and in the spirit of his work, across the disciplines.

The International Symposium, “Philosophy as a Transitional Genre: On Richard Rorty’s Intellectual Bequest,” where the society was founded and officially launched, was held May 2-3, 2014 at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York.

The inaugural meeting of the RRS was held at Hamilton College in New York in 2016. We have since held conferences at Penn State University in 2019 , online in 2021, and at the Universidad de Guadalajara in 2023.

We will be meeting again in Buenos Aires in 2025 . The program for the upcoming meeting can found here.