# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-rorty
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:51:06.120Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-rorty"
name: "Richard Rorty"
slug: "richard-rorty"
description: "Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Among his most influential books are Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989)."
tagline: "American philosopher (1931–2007)"
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birthDate: "1931-10-04"
deathDate: "2007-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump