Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy and the mirror of nature / Richard Rorty.

Author

Rorty, Richard

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c1979.

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Description

xv, 401 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Analysis (Philosophy)
• Civilization > Philosophy
• Mind and body
• Philosophy
• Philosophy [MESH]
• Philosophy, Modern
• Representation (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter I. The invention of the mind : Criteria of the mental -- The functional, the phenomenal, and the immaterial -- The diversity of mind-body problems -- Mind as the grasp of universals -- Ability to exist separately from teh body -- Dualism and "mind-stuff" -- Chapter II. Persons without minds : The Antipodeans -- Phenomenal properties -- Incorrigibility and raw feels -- Behaviorism -- Skepticism about other minds -- Materialism without mind-body identity -- Epistemology and the "philosophy of mind" -- Chapter III. The idea of a "Theory of Knowledge" : Epistemology and philosophy's self-image -- Locke's confussion of explination with justification -- Kant's confusion of prediction with synthesis -- Knowledge as needing "foundations" -- Chapter IV. Privileged Representations: Apodictic Truth, Privileged representations, and analytic philosophy -- Epistemological behaviorism -- Pre-linguistical awareness -- The "idea" idea -- Epistemological behaviorism, psychological behaviorism, and language -- Chapter V. Epistemology and Empirical Psychology: Suspicions about psychology -- The unnaturalness of epistemology -- Psychological states as genuine explinations -- Psychological states as representations -- Chapter VI. Epistemology and Philosophy of Language: Pure and impure philosophy of language -- What were our ancestors talking about? -- Idealism -- Reference -- Truth without mirrors -- Truth, goodness, and relativism -- Chapter VII. From Epistemology to Hermeneutics: Commensuration and conversation -- Kuhn and incommensurability -- Objectivity as correspondence and as agreement -- Spirit and nature -- Chapter VIII Philosophy without mirrors: Hermeneutics and edification -- Systematic philosophy and edifying philosophy -- Edification, relativism, and objective truth -- Edification and naturalism -- Philosophy in the conversation of mankind.

ISBN

• 0691020167 (pbk.)
• 0691072361 :

LCCN

^^^79084013^

OCLC

5886457

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library