Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Cover of the first edition
Author	Richard Rorty
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Epistemology, Philosophy of mind
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Publication date	1979
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 considered controversial upon publication, and had its greatest success outside analytic philosophy.