Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Name: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
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ISBN: 9780691020167

ISBN-10: 0691020167

ISBN-13: 9780691020167

Edition: 1981

Authors: Richard Rorty

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Philosophy and the Mirror of Naturehit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, and the book has since gone on to become one of its all-time best-sellers in philosophy. Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation. They compared the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. In their view, knowledge is concerned with the accuracy of these…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/21/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Richard Rorty is professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous works, including Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity; and What's the Use of Truth?Gianni Vattimo teaches hermeneutic philosophy at the University of Turin. Among his books are After Christianity; Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law; Dialogue with Nietzsche; and After the Death of God.Santiago Zabala is the editor of Weakening Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Gianni Vattimoand author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophyand the forthcoming The Remains of Being.