Rorty's aversion to metaphysics is well known, so the extent of his early work on Whitehead might come as a surprise. This article examines the young Rorty's critical assessment of Whitehead to show how it demonstrates the consequences of diverging metaphilosophical orientations. It argues that Rorty's insistence on judging Whitehead's work through an exclusively epistemological frame causes him to miss its more radical existential and epistemic implications. After examining how Rorty and Whitehead operate with different cost-benefit analyses as to the risks and benefits of speculative philosophy, it suggests that closer attention to the fuller stakes of Whitehead's project shows that his metaphysics are not opposed to the “poeticized” culture that Rorty calls for, one where the distinction between making and finding is no longer metaphysically foundational.

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怀特海和罗蒂的哲学标准

罗蒂对形而上学的厌恶是众所周知的，因此他对怀特黑德的早期工作的范围可能会令人惊讶。本文考察了年轻的罗蒂对怀特海的批判性评估，以展示它如何证明不同的元哲学取向的后果。它认为，罗蒂坚持通过一个专门的认识论框架来评判怀特海的作品，这导致他错过了它更激进的存在主义和认识论的含义。在研究了罗蒂和怀特黑德如何对投机哲学的风险和收益进行不同的成本收益分析后，它表明对怀特黑德项目的更全面利益的更密切关注表明，他的形而上学并不反对罗蒂的“诗化”文化呼吁，