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Richard Rorty publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard Rorty sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 347 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Richard Rorty D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard Rorty sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1981 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1973 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard Rorty was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and worked primarily within the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Their research spanned several subfields, including Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, and Education.

The main topics they addressed in their research included:

  • Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Philosophy, Science, and History
  • Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies
  • Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication
  • Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

Rorty published various research papers in notable academic venues. Selected recent works include:

  • "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids" (2022) in Common Knowledge
  • "The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres" (2021) in Humanitarian vision
  • "Introduction: Richard Rorty, Pragmatic Provocateur" (2022) authored by Barry Allen in Common Knowledge
  • "Index" (2021) in Harvard University Press eBooks

Coauthor collaborations featured several scholars, including:

  • Clifford Geertz
  • Barry Allen
  • Nicholas Gaskill
  • Chris Voparil
  • Barbara Herrnstein Smith

In terms of book publications, Richard Rorty had multiple works released by academic presses:

  • Two titles titled "Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism" published in 2021 by Harvard University Press
  • Two editions of "What Can We Hope For?" published in 2022 by Princeton University Press
  • "On Philosophy and Philosophers" published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press

Rorty received several recognitions during their career, including the fellowships of the MacArthur Foundation in 1981 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1973.

Best Publications

  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

    Richard Rorty

  • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

    Richard Rorty

  • Consequences of pragmatism

    Richard Rorty

  • Philosophy and Social Hope

    Richard Rorty

  • Objectivity, relativism, and truth

    Richard Rorty

  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

    Robert Greene;Richard Rorty

  • Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers

    Richard Rorty

  • Essays on Heidegger and others: Philosophical papers

    Richard Rorty

  • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers

    Richard M. Rorty

  • Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

    Richard Rorty

  • For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism

    Martha Nussbaum;Joshua Cohen;Richard Rorty

  • Truth and Progress: Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality

    Richard Rorty

  • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.

    Richard Rorty

  • Interpretation and overinterpretation

    Umberto Eco;Jonathan Culler;Richard Rorty;Christine Brooke-Rose

  • The Linguistic turn : recent essays in philosophical method

    Richard Rorty

  • Truth and progress

    Richard Rorty

  • Philosophy in history : essays on the historiography of philosophy

    Richard Rorty;Jerome B. Schneewind;Quentin Skinner

  • The Linguistic turn : essays in philosophical method

    Richard Rorty

  • Essays on Heidegger and others

    Richard Rorty

  • Consecuencias del pragmatismo

    Richard Rorty

  • Deconstruction and Pragmatism

    Simon Critchley;Jacques Derrida;Ernesto Laclau;Richard Rorty

  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.

    Harry Ruja;Richard Rorty

Frequent Co-Authors

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco University of Bologna
Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler Cornell University
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner Queen Mary University of London
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson University of California, Berkeley
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam Harvard University
John McDowell
John McDowell University of Pittsburgh
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre Boston University
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Jon Elster
Jon Elster Columbia University

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