Science in a literary culture or the unbearable transcendence of being scientific

The pragmatist perspective of Richard Rorty involves rethinking scientific progress in cultural development. He suggests avoiding ontological and methodological distinctions between scientific and no-scientific languages. Accordingly, science is integrated in the culture as a completely historical and contextual discourse. These ideas joined to the Rortian suggestion to motivate and to promote a literary culture allow and request a re-description of science. In this paper, I will reconstruct and deepen in the conception of science in the literary culture that Rorty imagined. I will argue that the science as a literary genre shows advantages to its philosophical interpretation as well as to the perspective provided for the cultural development and social improvement.

pragmatism, Rorty, textualism, scientism, anti-foundationalism