Today, the metaphor of conversation, introduced under the influence of Richard Rorty, has gained importance and even centrality that it did not have before.
According to Rorty, philosophers must stop seeing philosophy as a form of inquiry (a process of semiosis aimed at discovering the truth and thus serving to gather in perspective) and begin to see it simply as part of humanity’s conversation. In addition, philosophers should not rely on their authority to tell other disciplines what they think and how they think things should be done.
Rorty claims that philosophy is not the ultimate arbiter of human conversation, it is no more than one voice among the others, and not necessarily the most important or the most authoritative.
