2026 Richard Rorty: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	79	394	186	347	57358

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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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

19762
Citations
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

6553
Citations
Consequences of pragmatism

Richard Rorty

1761
Citations
Philosophy and Social Hope

Richard Rorty

1707
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Objectivity, relativism, and truth

Richard Rorty

1551
Citations
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Robert Greene;Richard Rorty

1351
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Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers

Richard Rorty

1069
Citations
Essays on Heidegger and others: Philosophical papers

Richard Rorty

998
Citations
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers

Richard M. Rorty

910
Citations
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

Richard Rorty

889
Citations
For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism

Martha Nussbaum;Joshua Cohen;Richard Rorty

656
Citations
Truth and Progress: Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality

Richard Rorty

645
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.

Richard Rorty

472
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Interpretation and overinterpretation

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

453
Citations
The Linguistic turn : recent essays in philosophical method

Richard Rorty

420
Citations
Truth and progress

Richard Rorty

419
Citations
Philosophy in history : essays on the historiography of philosophy

Richard Rorty;Jerome B. Schneewind;Quentin Skinner

406
Citations
The Linguistic turn : essays in philosophical method

Richard Rorty

403
Citations
Essays on Heidegger and others

Richard Rorty

398
Citations
Consecuencias del pragmatismo

Richard Rorty

386
Citations
Deconstruction and Pragmatism

Simon Critchley;Jacques Derrida;Ernesto Laclau;Richard Rorty

296
Citations
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.

Harry Ruja;Richard Rorty

174
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Frequent Co-Authors

Umberto Eco University of Bologna

Jonathan Culler Cornell University

Quentin Skinner Queen Mary University of London

Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt

Donald Davidson University of California, Berkeley

Hilary Putnam Harvard University

John McDowell University of Pittsburgh

Alasdair MacIntyre Boston University

Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure

Jon Elster Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Richard Rorty

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