Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Introduction to the Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition xiii Preface xxxi Introduction 3 Part one: Our Glassy Essense 15 Chapter I: The Invention of the Mind 17 1. Criteria of the Mental 17 2. The Functional, the Phenomenal, and the Immaterial 22 3. The Diversity of Mind-Body Problems 32 4. Mind as the Grasp of Universals 38 5. Ability to Exist Separately from the Body 45 6. Dualism and "Mind-Stuff" 61 Chapter II: Persons Without Minds 70 1. The Antipodeans 70 2. Phenomenal Properties 78 3. Incorrigibility and Raw Feels 88 4. Behaviorism 98 5. Skepticism about Other Minds 107 6. Materialism without Mind-Body Identity 114 7. Epistemology and "The Philosophy of Mind" 125 Part Two: Mirroring 129 Chapter III: The Idea of a "Theory of Knowledge" 131 1. Epistemology and Philosophy's Self-Image 131 2. Locke's Confusion of Explanation with Justification 139 3. Kant's Confusion of Predication with Synthesis 148 4. Knowledge as Needing "Foundations" 155 Chapter IV: Privileged Representations 165 1. Apodictic Truth, Privileged Representations, and Analytic Philosophy 165 2. Epistemological Behaviorism 173 3. Pre-linguistic Awareness 182 4. The "'Idea' Idea" 192 5. Epistemological Behaviorism, Psychological Behaviorism, and Language 209 Chapter v: Epistemology and Empirical Psychology 213 1. Suspicions about Psychology 213 2. The Unnaturalness of Epistemology 221 3. Psychological States as Genuine Explanations 230 4. Psychological States as Representations 244 Chapter vi: Epistemology and Philosophy of Language 257 1. Pure and Impure Philosophy of Language 257 2. What were our Ancestors Talking About? 266 3. Idealism 273 4. Reference 284 5. Truth Without Mirrors 295 6. Truth, Goodness, and Part Three: Philosophy 313 Chapter VII: From Epistemology to Hermeneutics 315 1. Commensuration and Conversation 315 2. Kuhn and Incommensurability 322 3. Objectivity as Correspondence and as Agreement 333 4. Spirit and Nature 343 Chapter VIII: Philosophy Without Mirrors 357 1.

Richard Rorty, geb. am 4. Oktober in New York City 1931, wächst dort in einem undogmatisch-linken Milieu auf;
1946 Studium an der Universität von Chicago. Zu seinen Lehrern gehören u.a. Rudolph Carnap, Charles Hartshorne und Richard McKeon. 1949 erwirbt er den BA und drei Jahre später den M.A. mit einer Arbeit über 'Whitehead's Use of the Concept of Potentiality'. 1952-56 arbeitet er in Yale. Thema der Dissertation bei Paul Weiss: 'The Concept of Potentiality', 1957-58 Dienst in der U.S.Army. 1958-61 Assistant Professor am Wellesley College. 1961-82 Universität Princeton, ab 1981 als 'Stuart Professor of Philosophy'. 1967 gibt er 'The Linguistic Turn'. 1973-74 Guggenheim Stipendium. 1981-86 MacArthur Stipendium. 1982 als akademische Konsequenz seiner Kritik an der sprachanalytischen Philosophie verläßt er Princeton und wird 1982-98 'Kenan Professor of the Humanities' an der Universität von Virginia. 1986 Northcliffe Lectures am University College, London. 1987 Clark Lectures am Trinity College, Cambridge. 1997 Massey Lectures in Harvard, Ehrendoktor der Universität von Paris. Seit 1998 lehrt Rorty Vergleichende Literatur an der Stanford University. Vorlesungen am Trinity College, Dublin. Im Sommer 2007 stirbt Richard Rorty in Palo Alto.

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "This is an ambitious and important book. Ambitious because it attempts to place the main concerns and discussions of contemporary philosophy within a historical perspective; important because this is all too rarely attempted within our present philosophical culture, and almost never done this well."--Charles Taylor, Times Literary Supplement