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| Author | Richard Rorty |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Epistemology, Philosophy of mind |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 401 |
| ISBN | 0-691-02016-7 |
| OCLC | 7040341 |
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. Rorty does this 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 these pseudo-problems if it is to be productive. The work was criticized extensively by many analytic philosophers, and had its greatest success in the humanities.