Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature : : Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition /

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature : : Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition / / Richard Rorty.

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror th...

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Rorty, Richard,
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Bromwich, David.
Williams, Michael.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2009
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the 2009 Edition / Williams, Michael
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Our Glassy Essence
  • CHAPTER I. The Invention of the Mind
  • CHAPTER II. Persons Without Minds
  • PART TWO: Mirroring
  • CHAPTER III. The Idea of a "Theory of Knowledge"
  • CHAPTER IV. Privileged Representations
  • CHAPTER V. Epistemology and Empirical Psychology
  • CHAPTER VI. Epistemology and Philosophy of Language
  • PART THREE: Philosophy
  • CHAPTER VII. From Epistemology to Hermeneutics
  • CHAPTER VIII. Philosophy Without Mirrors
  • The Philosopher as Expert / Rorty, Richard
  • Afterword: Remembering Richard Rorty / Bromwich, David
  • Index

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