Essays for Bjørn T. Ramberg
Edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi & Robert Sinclair
Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 5
March, 2026
ISBN 978-952-67497-4-7
422 + viii pp.
Description
This collection honours Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg’s career as philosopher and teacher. The essays touch on both of these features; the philosophical concerns that have motivated Ramberg’s reflections, as well as his guiding role as teacher and mentor for many of the contributors to this volume.
Full contents
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Chapters
Part I: Pragmatism and Method
- 1. The Rortyan “We”, the Disappearing “We”, and the Transcendental “We”—Reflections on Pragmatist Methodology
Sami Pihlström - 2. On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories
Robert Brandom - 3. From Pragmatist Anti-Metaphysics to Non-Ideal Epistemology?
Endre Begby - 4. Pragmatism, Truth, and Naturalism: Revisiting the Price–Rorty Debate
Jonathan Knowles - 5. Reclaiming Pluralism from the Truth Pluralist
Cheryl Misak - 6. Growth, Education and Cosmopolitan Identity: Some Deweyan Reflections
Robert Sinclair
Part II: Davidson and Rorty
- 7. On the Road with Rorty, Davidson, and Ramberg
Huw Price - 8. Remnants of Representationalism: Rorty as Refined by Ramberg
Henrik Rydenfelt - 9. Triangulation and Ethics: Accord or Discord?
Ingvald Fergestad - 10. Ramberg’s Hermeneutical Reading of Davidson and Rorty and Its Implications for Understanding Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
Torjus Midtgarden - 11. This, But Unironically: Unprofessional Thoughts after Rorty
Alan Richardson - 12. Ramberg’s Naturalized Rationalism
Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi
Part III: Metaphilosophy, Politics and Culture
- 13. Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy
James Tartaglia - 14. The Principle of Charity and the Practice of Peace: Metaphysics oder Pragmatism?
Sharyn Clough - 15. Philosophia as Cultural Politics: Reading Ramberg’s Rorty with Isocrates
Kristian Bjørkdahl - 16. The Imperative of Translation: Germaine de Staël on Culture, Interpretation, and Politics
Kristin Gjesdal - 17. The Irruption of Words and the Voice of the Dead: Ramberg on Rorty’s Final Vocabularies
Federico Penelas - 18. On Not Selling Human Freedom Short: Ramberg, Rorty, and Democratic Normativity
Chris Voparil