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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.
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford ...
Rorty proposes that each of us has a set of beliefs whose contingency we more or less ignore, which he dubs our "final vocabulary". [2] One of the strong poet's greatest fears, according to Rorty, is that he will discover that he has been operating within someone else's final vocabulary all along; that he has not "self-created". It is his goal ...
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 1979; Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, 1979; Alvin Goldman, "What is Justified Belief?", 1979; Ernest Sosa, "The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge", 1980
Pages in category "Books by Richard Rorty" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Philosophy as Cultural ...
Neopragmatism [1] is a variant of pragmatism that infers that the meaning of words is a result of how they are used, rather than the objects they represent.. The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy (2004) defines "neo-pragmatism" as "A postmodern version of pragmatism developed by the American philosopher Richard Rorty and drawing inspiration from authors such as John Dewey, Martin ...
Richard Rorty expanded on these and other arguments in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature in which he criticized attempts by many philosophers of science to carve out a space for epistemology that is entirely unrelated to—and sometimes thought of as superior to—the empirical sciences.
[1] In 2014, Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, stated that "in the view of Ronald A. Kuipers in his book Richard Rorty, Rorty was a quintessentially American thinker, an exponent not just of American pragmatism, but also of the American sublime." [2]