Here are some points on Richard Rorty from Wiki, in particular his rejection of classical Analytic Philosophy which Peter Holmes, Terrapin Station, et. al. are clinging on so dogmatically.
..he [Rorty] had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy, the latter of which came to constitute the main focus of his work at Princeton University in the 1960s.
He subsequently came to reject the tradition of philosophy [classical Analytic Philosophy] according to which knowledge involves correct representation (a "mirror of nature") of a world whose existence remains wholly independent of that representation.
Rorty saw the idea of knowledge as a "mirror of nature" as pervasive throughout the history of western philosophy. Against this approach, Rorty advocated for a novel form of American pragmatism (sometimes called neopragmatism)[4] in which scientific and philosophical methods form merely a set of contingent "vocabularies" which people abandon or adopt over time according to social conventions and usefulness.
Rorty believed abandoning representationalist accounts of knowledge and language would lead to a state of mind he referred to as "ironism", in which people become completely aware of the contingency of their placement in history and of their philosophical vocabulary.
He believed that without the representationalist accounts, and without metaphors between the mind and the world, human society would behave more peacefully.
He also emphasized the reasons why the interpretation of culture as conversation (Bernstein 1971) constitutes the crucial concept of a "postphilosophical" culture determined to abandon representationalist accounts of traditional epistemology, incorporating American pragmatism with metaphysical naturalism.
Pragmatists generally hold that the meaning of a proposition is determined by its use in linguistic practice. Rorty combined pragmatism about truth and other matters with a later Wittgensteinian philosophy of language which declares that meaning is a social-linguistic product, and sentences do not 'link up' with the world in a correspondence relation. Rorty wrote in his Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989):
According to Rorty, analytic philosophy may not have lived up to its pretensions and may not have solved the puzzles it thought it had.
- Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there.
The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own unaided by the describing activities of humans cannot."(5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rorty