Changes to Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth:... by Richard Rorty

In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.

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There are two principal ways in which reflective human beings try, by placing their lives in a larger context, to give sense to those lives.

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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers, Vol 1) (edit title)