Reading Rorty
Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Beyond

Alan Malachowski (Edited by)

9780631161493, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 10 May 1990

400 pages
22.9 x 15.5 x 3 cm, 0.624 kg

In "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" Richard Rorty presented his vision of post-philosophical culture, calling upon professional philosophers to accept that epistemology is dead, that the analytic method is a myth, and that philosophy and science are merely forms of literature. This volume is an examination of the conclusions drawn by Richard Rorty. Discussions, by philosophers such as W.V. Cline, Donald Davidson, Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor, John Yolton and Martin Hollis, cover Rorty's views on truth, language, knowledge and the self, together with his pragmatism, his "continental turn" and his regard for the literary potential of philosophical writing.

Part 1 An overview and a review: the world from its own point of view, Tom Sorell

Auto-da-fe - consequences of pragmatism, Bernard Williams.

Part 2 Mirrors, mind and truth - Descartes, Rorty and the mind-body fiction, Jennifer Hornsby

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]