Reading Rorty : critical responses to Philosophy and the mirror of nature (and beyond)

The World From Its Own Point Of View / Tom Sorell -- Auto-da-fé : Consequences Of Pragmatism / Bernard Williams -- Descartes, Rorty And The Mind-body Fiction / Jennifer Hornsby -- Mirrors And Veils, Thoughts And Things : The Epistemological Problematic / John W. Yolton -- Veritable Reflections / Gerald Vision -- Pragmatism And Choosing To Believe / Jane Heal -- Let Me Accentuate The Positive / W.v. Quine -- A Coherence Theory Of Truth And Knowledge / Donald Davidson -- Deep Epistemology Without Foundations (in Language) / Alan R. Malachowski -- Rorty's Talk-about / David Houghton -- Fact And Fiction / Michael Clark -- Philosophy And The Mirage Of Hermeneutics / Jacek Holówka -- Rorty, Realism And The Idea Of Freedom / Roy Bhaskar. Redefining Philosophy As Literature : Richard Rorty's 'defence' Of Literary Culture / Michael Fischer -- The Poetics Of Personhood / Martin Hollis -- Rorty In The Epistemological Tradition / Charles Taylor -- The Priority Of Democracy To Philosophy / Richard Rorty -- Solidarity Or Singularity? : Richard Rorty Between Romanticism And Technocracy / Nancy Fraser -- Conversational Politics : Rorty's Pragmatist Apology For Liberalism / Jo Burrows -- Biting The Bullet : Rorty On Private And Public Morality / Charles B. Guignon, David R. Hiley. Edited By Alan R. Malachowski ; Associate Editor Jo Burrows. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Bibliography Of The Works Of Richard Rorty : P. [371]-378. In 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' Richard Rorty presented his provocation and influential vision of the post-philosophical culture, calling upon professional philosophers to accept that epistemology is dead, that the analytic method is a myth, and that philosophy and science are merely forms of literature. An examination of the conclusions drawn by Richard Rorty in "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature". Discussions cover Rorty's views on truth, language, knowledge and the self, together with his pragmatism and his regard for the literary potential of philosophical writing.