This thread contains summaries of the sections of richard rorty s book philosophy and the mirror of nature this post is an index of all the section summaries.
Richard rorty philosophy and the mirror of nature summary.
The centerpiece of rorty s critique is the provocative account offered in philosophy and the mirror of nature 1979 hereafter pmn.
The chief target of rorty s work is the notion that epistemology is the arbiter of what is rational in western cultures.
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 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.
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He sees this as an outgrowth of descartes project of grounding the new science on a new base of certainty.
Philosophy and the mirror of nature is a 1979 work of philosophy.
In philosophy and the mirror of nature 1979 rorty argues that the central problems of modern epistemology depend upon a picture of the mind as trying to faithfully represent or mirror a mind independent external reality.
Rorty s philosophy and the mirror of nature.
A foundationalist believes that in order to avoid the regress.
If we give up this metaphor then the entire enterprise of foundationalist epistemology is misguided.
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