This ambitious book addresses the "end-of-philosophy" debate and the challenge it presents to contemporary philosophy, both continental and analytic. It is a chain of argument as well as a conversation conducted in the presence of the major contributors to that debate: the critics (especially Richard Rorty) of the dominantly Platonic-Cartesian-Kant

Preface and Acknowledgements -- The Tradition -- Subjecting the Tradition to Stress -- Rorty and the Self-Image of Philosophy -- How to Be Skeptical About Philosophy -- The Tradition in Retreat -- On Being Ontologically Unserious -- Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinians, and the End of Philosophy -- New Directions -- Can There Be Progress in Philosophy? -- Scientism, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Philosophy -- Searching for an Emancipatory Perspective: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Hermeneutical Circle -- Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Transformation of Philosophy -- In Defense of Wide Reflective Equilibrium