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In it, richard rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation. 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 mindindependent, external reality. One is negativea critical diagnosis of what rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. Philosophy and the mirror of nature james tartaglia keele university. It may also be true that prephilosophy and the mirror of naturerorty is a codecracking as rorty calls himself analytic philosopher with little to foreshadow his later antifoundationalism aside from a caustic devilmaycare style of criticism.
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The original title of the book was the burden of our times, which was published in britain as the burden of our time 1951. In this book, and in the closely related essays collected in consequences of richard rorty 19312007 developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. 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 critical essays. Philosophys central concern is to be a general theory of representation, a theory which will divide culture up into the areas which represent reality. 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. In philosophy and the mirror of nature, richard rorty has attempted to find an underlying metaphor upon which the history of western philosophy has been founded.
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