IMPLIKASI PANDANGAN FILSAFAT PRAGMATISME RICHARD RORTY TENTANG EPISTEMOLOGI DALAM BIDANG PENDIDIKAN
Abstract: 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 naturebut 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.
Penulis: Achmad Dardiri
Kode Jurnal: jppendidikandd070012
