IMPLIKASI PANDANGAN FILSAFAT PRAGMATISME RICHARD RORTY TENTANG EPISTEMOLOGI DALAM BIDANG PENDIDIKAN

Abstract

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The indicate that the views held Richard
Rorty's pragmatic philosophy on epistemology (about knowledge
and truth) are as follows. (1) According to Rorty, knowledge is not
to be seen as a matter obtaining true reality or of reflecting nature
but acts in course of mastering
a matter of dialogues. Truth is not to be interpreted as
conformity between statement and reality (its correspondence to
is it to interpreted as conformity between
(its correspondence to thought); rather, it is to be
as whenever something is good for us, we
believe in it. In this case, Rorty assumes the view of the relativity of
truth. According to him, if we wish to find justification of truth, we
should seek it society by conducting dialogues, which are to be
referred to as social justification or dialogical justification.