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Richard rorty in philosophy and the mirror of nature 1979 brings into the discussion a theoretical framework around human rights rationality and sentimentality.
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The centerpiece of rorty s critique is the provocative account offered in philosophy and the mirror of nature 1979 hereafter pmn.
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.
In this book and in the closely related essays collected in consequences of pragmatism 1982 hereafter cp rorty s principal target is the philosophical idea of knowledge as representation as a mental.
Philosophy and the mirror of nature.
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Richard rorty a princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied.