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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition (Princeton Classics)
by Richard Rorty, David Bromwich, Michael Williams
Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17815-8, ISBN: 0-691-17815-1

"Broschiertes BuchWhen 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. Toda ..."






On Philosophy and Philosophers
Unpublished Papers, 1960-2000 (Paperback)
by Richard Rorty, W. P. Malecki, Chris Voparil
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2020 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-72636-8, ISBN: 1-108-72636-4






Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature(Updated)
Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition (Princeton Classics)
by Richard Rorty, Michael Williams, David Bromwich
Paperback, 472 Pages, Published 2009 by Princeton University Press
Deluxe Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14132-9, ISBN: 0-691-14132-0

"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 ..."






What's the Use of Truth?
by Pascal Engel, Richard Rorty, William Mccuaig, Patrick Savidan
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14014-0, ISBN: 0-231-14014-2

"What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. Rorty doub ..."






Philosophy as Cultural Politics(1st Edition)
Philosophical Papers, Vol.4 (Volume 4)
by Richard Rorty
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-69835-1, ISBN: 0-521-69835-9

"This 2007 volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and Progress. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress ..."






On Philosophy and Philosophers
Unpublished Papers, 1960-2000 (Hardback)
by Richard Rorty
Hardcover, 263 Pages, Published 2020 by Cambridge University Press 2020-03-31
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-48845-7, ISBN: 1-108-48845-5

"This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details."






Interpretation and Overinterpretation(1st Edition)
(Tanner Lectures in Human Values)
by Umberto Eco, Stefan Collini, Jonathan Culler, Professor Richard Rorty, Christine Brooke-Rose, Richard Rorty, Eco/Collini
Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 1992 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-42554-4, ISBN: 0-521-42554-9

"Umberto Eco, international best-selling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings together these two roles in a provocative discussion of the vexed question of literary interpretation. The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and ..."






Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind(2nd Edition)
by Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, Robert B. Brandom, Richard Mckay Rorty
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1997 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-25155-7, ISBN: 0-674-25155-5

"The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by ..."






What's the Use of Truth?(Reprint)
by Richard Rorty, Pascal Engel, William Mccuaig, Patrick Savidan
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14015-7, ISBN: 0-231-14015-0

"What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. Rorty doub ..."






The Rorty Reader(1st Edition)
by Richard Rorty, Christopher J. Voparil, Richard J. Bernstein
Paperback, 566 Pages, Published 2010 by Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-9832-5, ISBN: 1-4051-9832-X

"The first comprehensive collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931–2007), The Rorty Reader brings together the influential American philosopher s essential essays from over four decades of writings.  Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty′s life and body of work Brings key essays published across many volumes and journals into one collection, including selections from his final volume of philosophical papers, Ph ..."






The Future of Religion(1st Edition)
by Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, Santiago Zabala, William Mccuaig
Hardcover, 91 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13494-1, ISBN: 0-231-13494-0

"Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion; instead it opens new ways of imagining ..."






Foucault
A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader)
by David Couzens Hoy, Ian Hacking, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Jurgen Habermas, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Edward W. Said, Michel Foucault
Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 1986 by B. Blackwell
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-14042-9, ISBN: 0-631-14042-5

"This collection of articles on Michel Foucault confirms his position as one of the most influential thinkers in this last quarter of the century, and simultaneously demonstrates the current ambivalence among philosophers and social scientists about the actual grounds for such an assessment."






Philosophy in History
Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy (Ideas in Context)
by Quentin Skinner, Richard Rorty, Jerome B. Schneewind, Rorty/Schneewind/Skinner, Richard M. Schneewind, Cambridge University Press, Richard Mckay Rorty, Ken Farnhill, Martin J. Walsh, Professor Richard Rorty, James Tully, Professor Lorraine Daston, Professor Dorothy Ross
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1984 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-27330-5, ISBN: 0-521-27330-7

"The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual historians commonly accuse philosophers of writing bad - anachronistic - history of philosophy, and on the other, philosophers have accused intellectual historians of writing bad - antiquarian - history of philosophy. The essays here address this controversy and ask what purpose the histor ..."






The Future of Religion(Updated)
by Professor Richard Rorty, Professor Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala, Professor Santiago Zabala, William Mccuaig, Columbia University Press
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13495-8, ISBN: 0-231-13495-9

"Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion; instead it opens new ways of imagining ..."






On Philosophy and Philosophers
Unpublished Papers, 1960–2000
by Richard Rorty, Chris Voparil
Published 2020 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-80128-7, ISBN: 1-108-80128-5

"Unpublished Papers, 1960–2000 Richard Rorty W. P. Małecki, Chris Voparil ... 1960–2000 / Richard Rorty ; Christopher Voparil, Union Institute and University, Ohio, Wojciech Malecki, University of Wroclaw, Poland, [editors]. description: ..."






Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy
Early Philosophical Papers
by Richard Rorty, Stephen Leach, James Tartaglia
Digital, Published by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-69909-9, ISBN: 1-139-69909-1

"This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of work, which many leading philosophers still consider to be his best, Rorty develops his views on the nature and scope of philosophy in a manner which supplements and elucidates his definitiv ..."






Achieving Our County - Leftist Thought
by Richard Rorty
ISBN-13: 978-1-67400-312-2, ISBN: 1-67400-312-9






Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
Volume 1 : Philosophical Papers
by Richard Rorty
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-92713-0, ISBN: 1-139-92713-2






Page-Barbour Lectures
Philosophy As Poetry
by Richard Rorty
96 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Virginia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-3934-6, ISBN: 0-8139-3934-8

"This book makes an ideal starting place for anyone looking for an introduction to Rorty’s thought and his contribution to our sense of an American pragmatism, as well as an understanding of his influence and the controversy that attended ..."






Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy
Early Philosophical Papers
by Richard Rorty
Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-86787-0, ISBN: 1-139-86787-3

"This suggestion is valid if it is indeed the case that to the extent that they (the analytic and linguistic philosophers) still accept the positivists' ... and I have been arguing throughout that Adler's own notion of “relegation to the plane of second- order questions” is unenlightening unless ... 5 To avoid some problems already discussed, I shall now construe “first-order questions” to mean simply “the traditional ..."



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