Chair: Christopher Voparil (Union Institute & University)

E. D. Hirsch (Professor Emeritus of Education and Humanities at the University of Virginia): Reminiscences, and Late Rorty on Nationalism

Kian Tajbakhsh (Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University): Reading Rorty in Tehran

William M. Curtis (University of Portland): Rorty, Wittgenstein, and Rule-Following

David Macarthur (The University of Sydney): Does Rorty Have a Blind Spot about the Normativity of Truth?

Jared Riggs (University of Toronto): Why Wasn’t Rorty a Normative Pragmatist?

Rebeca Perez Leon (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico): Irony’s Import to Liberal Democracy

Robbie Moser (Mount Allison University): Irony, or Philosophy, in a Populist Age

David McClean (Rutgers University): Rorty on the ‘Too Sane’

David Haack (KU Leuven, The New School): Anti-Foundationalism, Reason, and Ethics

Susana de Castro (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro): The Plausibility of Nonfoundationalism in Ethics

John P. Anderson (Mississippi College of Law): Human Rights Discourse that Faces Contingency: A Rortyan Vision

Brandon Beasley (University of Calgary): Rorty as Ideal Language Philosopher

Owen Alldritt (Emory University): Everyday Dogmatism: Habermas and Rorty on Practical Reason

Susan Dieleman (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville): Richard Rorty and the Justification of Philosophy

Kate Phelan (RMIT University): Why Feminists Should be Pragmatists

W. P. Malecki (University of Wroclaw): Did You Hear the One on Carnap and Plato? Rorty’s Philosophical Humor

Bryan Vescio (High Point University): Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Death

Robert Piercey (Campion College at the University of Regina): Triangulating Ethics

Yvonne Hütter-Almerigi (Universita di Bologna): Action without Truth: Rorty and his Critics on Orwell and Revolutionary Practice

Kristian Bjørkdahl (University of Oslo): Epideictic Utopia: Rorty and the Ethical Groundwork for Liberal Politics

Elin Danielsen Huckerby (University of Cambridge): Magister Ludi: Rortian Pragmatism and the Playful Virtues of the Novel

Martin Müller (Volkshochschule Munchen): From Tragic Heroism to Pragmatic Ironism? Remarks on the Existentialist Dimension of Rorty’s Ethics

Richard Gilmore (Concordia College): Rortian Ethics, or, How to Zim Zum

Robert B. Brandom

Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality (Part 1)

Nalliely Hernandez (Universidad de Guadalajara): Uses of Irony: Literature, History and Political Identity in Mexico

Sergio A. Gallegos-Ordorica (John Jay College of Criminal Justice): Antonio Caso’s Proto-Rortyan Ethics

Alexis Dianda (Xavier University): Rorty and the Irony of Hope

Bjørn Ramberg (University of Oslo): Philosophy and Freedom

Pedro Ferrao (University of Lisbon): Rorty on Ethics: For and Against

Anthony Sean Neal (Mississippi State University): Philosophy as Poetry: Rorty and the Spirituals

Colin Koopman (University of Oregon): Rorty’s Metaphilosophy: An Unexpected Source for Rorty’s Vocabulary Pluralism

Michael Bacon & Neil Gascoigne (Royal Holloway, University of London): Rorty, Metaphilosophy, and the New Pragmatism

Alejandro Sanchez Lopera (Pitt): Richard Rorty’s Foucault: ‘We, Liberals’?

James Hersh (Salve Regina University): When is Desire Dangerous? The Conversation Leading from Nietzsche’s ‘Delicate Boundary’ to Rorty’s ‘Poeticized Culture’

Daniel I. Harris (Trent University): Nietzsche Between Rorty and Foucault

Ben Roth (Harvard College Writing Program): Can Trees Care? Can We, Anymore? The Overstory by Richard Powers and Rorty’s ‘The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature’

Carlin Romano (University of Pennsylvania): Rorty’s Literary Ethics

Sanjit Chakraborty (University of Hyderabad): Stepping Out Analytic Trend: Revisiting Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Raff Donelson (Louisiana State University): The Rorty-Dworkin Debate

Steve Stakland (Northern Virginia Community College): Richard Rorty’s Conservative Educational Philosophy: E.D. Hirsch and Curricular Content

Mark Phillips (University of New Orleans): The Hope of Achieving a Global Civilization

James Roney (Juniata College): Rorty, Nussbaum, and Appiah: Narrating Solidarity, Empathy, and Identity

David Rondel (University of Nevada, Reno): Rorty’s Ethics as Radical, Tragic Pluralism

Federico Penelas (Universidad de Buenos Aires): The Importance of Words: Ironism, Liberalism, and the Affectivity of Final Vocabularies

Robert B. Brandom

Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality (Part 2)

Richard J. Bernstein (Vera List Professor of Philosophy, the New School for Social Research)

Brady Bowman (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University)

Griffin Klemick (University of Toronto): The Problem with Picturing: Rorty’s Critique of Sellars Revisited

Javier Moreno (Universidad de los Andes): Objectivity without Abasement

Santiago Rey (Universidad de los Andes): Imagination as a Social Virtue

Federico Colmenares Escallon (Universidad do los Andes): Richard Rorty: From an Ironic Reading to an Ironic Way of Life

Tracy Llanera (University of Connecticut): Disavowing Hate: Group Egotists from Westboro to the Klan

John Giordano (Merrimack College): Richard Rorty, Ethnocentrism, and Moral Community: A Westerner’s Response to Female Genital Mutilation

Christopher Voparil (Union Institute & University): Rorty and Experience

Stephane Madelrieux (University of Lyon): Dewey and Rorty on Scientific Method and Moral Virtue

Paul Showler (University of Oregon): Richard Rorty on Moral Status

Wade Roberts (Juniata College): Narrative, Imagination, and the Horizon of Moral Inclusion: Rorty and Environmental Ethics