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Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy : Early Philosophical Papers

By Richard Rorty; Stephen Leach; James Tartaglia

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781107039780 1107039789 9781107612297 1107612292
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1813940 bytes)
Pages
328\328
Time added
2017-07-30 22:14:22
American -- 20th century. PhilosophyAmerican.Modern -- 20th century. PhilosophyPhilosophy

Description

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 definitive statement on these matters in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. He also develops his groundbreaking version of eliminative materialism, a label first coined to describe his position, and sets out original views on various central topics in the philosophy of language, concerning private language, indeterminacy, and verificationalism. A substantial introduction examines Rorty's philosophical development from 1961 to 1972. The volume completes our understanding of Rorty's intellectual trajectory and offers lucid statements of positions which retain their relevance to current debates.

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