caa a22 4500 386365172 CHVBK 20180307111930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300015626 doi S0012217300015626 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300015626 Rabb J. Douglas Lakehead University The Polycentric Perspective: A Canadian Alternative to Rorty [Elektronische Daten] [J. Douglas Rabb] Canadian philosopher Rupert C. Lodge (1886-1961) developed a pluralistic or "comparative philosophy” in which he adopted what I shall call the polycentric perspective. The polycentric perspective recognizes that since philosophical discourse, indeed all discourse, is necessarily linear, "of only one dimension”, it follows that no one metaphysical system, no one philosophical perspective, can ever be considered adequate on its own. In this paper I argue that the philosophy of pluralism, the adoption of the polycentric perspective by Lodge and other early Canadian philosophers, can and does serve as an adequate answer and intriguing alternative to Richard Rorty's challenge to Speculative Philosophy in The Consequences of Pragmatism and Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/1(1989), 107-116 0012-2173 28:1<107 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015626 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015626 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rabb J. Douglas Lakehead University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/1(1989), 107-116 0012-2173 28:1<107 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge