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Philosophy and the mirror of nature / Richard Rorty.
- Title
- Philosophy and the mirror of nature / Richard Rorty.
- Author
- Rorty, Richard
- Publication
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xxxiii, 439 p. :; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 30 years ago Richard Rorty argued that philosophers had developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. The book now stands as a classic of 20th-century philosophy.
- Alternative Title
- Philosopher as expert.
- Subject
- Note
- Previous ed.: 1979.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The invention of the mind -- Persons without minds -- The idea of a "theory of knowledge" -- Privileged representations -- Epistemology and empirical psychology -- Epistemology and philosophy of language -- From epistemology to hermeneutics -- Philosophy without mirrors -- The philosopher as expert.
- ISBN
- 9780691141329 (pbk.)
- 0691141320 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 288985694
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library