Παρουσίαση
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned.Thirty years later, the book remains a must-read and stands as a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. Its influence on the academy, both within philosophy and across a wide array of disciplines, continues unabated. This edition includes new essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert". (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
Introduction to the Thirtieth-Anniversary EditionPreface
Introduction
Part one: Our Glassy Essense
Chapter I: The Invention of the Mind
1. Criteria of the Mental
2. The Functional, the Phenomenal, and the Immaterial
3. The Diversity of Mind-Body Problems
4. Mind as the Grasp of Universals
5. Ability to Exist Separately from the Body
6. Dualism and "Mind-Stuff"
Chapter II: Persons Without Minds
1. The Antipodeans
2. Phenomenal Properties
3. Incorrigibility and Raw Feels
4. Behaviorism
5. Skepticism about Other Minds
6. Materialism without Mind-Body Identity
7. Epistemology and "The Philosophy of Mind"
Part Two: Mirroring
Chapter III: The Idea of a "Theory of Knowledge"
1. Epistemology and Philosophy's Self-Image
2. Locke's Confusion of Explanation with Justification
3. Kant's Confusion of Predication with Synthesis
4. Knowledge as Needing "Foundations"
Chapter IV: Privileged Representations
1. Apodictic Truth, Privileged Representations, and Analytic Philosophy
2. Epistemological Behaviorism
3. Pre-linguistic Awareness
4. The "'Idea' Idea"
5. Epistemological Behaviorism, Psychological Behaviorism, and Language
Chapter v: Epistemology and Empirical Psychology
1. Suspicions about Psychology
2. The Unnaturalness of Epistemology
3. Psychological States as Genuine Explanations
4. Psychological States as Representations
Chapter vi: Epistemology and Philosophy of Language
1. Pure and Impure Philosophy of Language
2. What were our Ancestors Talking About?
3. Idealism
4. Reference
5. Truth Without Mirrors
6. Truth, Goodness
Part Three: Philosophy
Chapter VII: From Epistemology to Hermeneutics
1. Commensuration and Conversation
2. Kuhn and Incommensurability
3. Objectivity as Correspondence and as Agreement
4. Spirit and Nature
Chapter VIII: Philosophy Without Mirrors
1. Hermeneutics and Edification
2. Systematic Philosophy and Edifying Philosophy
3. Edification, Relativism, and Objective Truth
4. Edification and Naturalism
5. Philosophy in the Conversation of Mankind
The Philosopher as Expert
Afterword: Remembering Richard Rorty
Index
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