Work
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Overview
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is a 1979 book by the American philosopher Richard Rorty, in which the author attempts to dissolve modern philosophical problems instead of solving them. Rorty does this by presenting them as pseudo-problems that only exist in the language-game of epistemological projects culminating in analytic philosophy. In a pragmatist gesture, Rorty suggests that philosophy must get past these pseudo-problems if it is to be productive.
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Philosophers who discussed Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Related ideas
- Mind–body problem
- Princeton University Press
- Historicism
- Immanuel Kant
- Analytic philosophy
- John Locke
- John Dewey
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Intentionality
- Language game (philosophy)
- Metaphilosophy
- Richard Rorty
- John McDowell
- Qualia
- René Descartes
- Thomas Kuhn
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Michael Dummett
- Aristotle
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Martin Heidegger
- Richard McKeon
- Hardcover
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.
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