Dr. Tobias Timm

Simon Fraser University, Sociology And Anthropology, Alumnus

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I am the author of two books:
"Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience: A Reconstruction" (2019). Rowman and Littlefield Publishing: Lanham, Maryland
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"The Intellectual Crisis in the Life of Richard Rorty: The Shift from a Philosophy of Experience to a Philosophy of Language" (2018, Edwin Mellen Press: New York).

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I completed my PhD at York University, and completed my Master's and Bachelor's degrees at SFU. My primary areas of focus are in classical American pragmatism, phenomenology and the philosophy of language.

Awards:
- Young Leaders Fellowship from the Tokyo Foundation - 2012
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - 2011

Conferences:
- 12'th annual Graduate Conference - Latin and Caribbean Studies Center in New York.

Degrees:
Doctor of Philosophy: Sociology - York University
Master of arts: School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of arts: Anthropology - Simon Fraser University
Supervisors: Brian Singer, Henry Jackman, and Philip Walsh

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Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience

Lexington Books, 2019

Richard Rorty, perhaps the most important philosopher of the past century, refused to write meani... more Richard Rorty, perhaps the most important philosopher of the past century, refused to write meaningfully about experience due to his postmodern inclination to associate experience with a belief in objectivity and foundational truths. Rich-ard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience: A Reconstruction explores the context, reasoning, and consequences of this resistance. While for much of our history experience has been valued for its potential to teach us about the world, Rorty and other postmodern thinkers encouraged us to doubt the narrative that we can use experience to make epistemological progress. Rather than pursue universal truths about the world, Rorty suggested that we recognize all of our beliefs about the world as being social constructions. In his project to recover a concept of experience from within the framework Rorty constructed, Tobias Timm describes how classical pragmatist theories of experience are naïve about the problem of foundationalism. He also explains how the most common phenomenological work lacks an active subject ; experience here is simply something that happens to us, rather than something we actively seek to improve. Timm demonstrates that despite Rorty's insistence that we talk about language instead of experience, there are strong experiential elements in his work. Rorty's romanticism and his optimism about the accomplishments of Western culture are remedial to the pessimism of postmodern discussions about experience.

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The Intellectual Crisis of Richard Rorty From a Philosophy of Experience to a Philosophy of Language

“The commonly promoted narrative of Rorty’s career sees a strong move against analytic philosophy... more

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Narratives: Time, Memory and Authorship

In this paper I compare and contrast two approaches that have been taken to narrative inquiry: re... more In this paper I compare and contrast two approaches that have been taken to narrative inquiry: realism and interpretivism. According to realists narratives are a means to reconstruct a past that is certain and knowable. To contrast, interpretivists see narrative inquiry as a chance to study the complex set of interactions that take place as narratives are formed. Here the concern is not with establishing the accuracy of narratives as they correspond to a world that is “real”, but there is importance given to the meanings that narratives have to people. Both approaches examine time, memory and the issue of authorship/co-construction. In this paper, by comparing and contrasting two paradigms, I am able to illustrate how questions of time, memory and authorship vary.

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Reviving Pragmatism

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Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience

Lexington Books, 2019

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The Intellectual Crisis of Richard Rorty From a Philosophy of Experience to a Philosophy of Language

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Narratives: Time, Memory and Authorship

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Reviving Pragmatism

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