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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

by Richard Rorty

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30 years ago Richard Rorty argued that philosophers had developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. The book now stands as a classic of 20th-century philosophy.

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Book data: Open Library