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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- RORTY, R.
- Venue
- Princeton University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2008-12-29
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- W2159866583
- Cited by
- 4,927
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 485.04
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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