Rorty on pragmatism

I am, by nature and upbringing, dogmatic, but I fell in among bad companions earlier in my life – Lisp and Smalltalk programmers, certain philosophers of science, and the American Pragmatist philosophers. They made me better at my job of a software consultant. Something that really struck me, way back when, was part of the Introduction to Richard Rorty &rsquo;s Consequences of Pragmatism . I offer…