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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After... read more
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- Wilfrid Sellars: Add a description of this character.
- Descartes
- Quine
- Kuhn
- Donald Davidson
- Locke
- Ryle
- Wittgenstein
- Kant
- Russell
- Dewey
- Heidegger
- Feyerabend
- Hume
- Gadamer
- Strawson
- Malcolm
- Kripke
- Mind
- Alquie
- Aristotle
- Dodwell
- Dummett
- Harman
- Spinoza
- Husserl
- Tarski
- Zeller
- Frege
- Peirce
- Lewis
- Carnap
- Freud
- Reid
- Aquinas
- Jones
- Wilson
- Matson
- Rosenberg
- Marx
- Robinson
- Haldane
- Armstrong
- T. H. Green
- Ross
- Chisholm
- Royce
First Sentence edit
Discussions in the philosophy of mind usually start off by assuming that everybody has always known how to divide the world into the mental and the physical-that this distinction is common-sensical and intuitive, even if that between two sorts of "stuff," material and immaterial, is philosophical and baffling.
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This is book 98 of 100 in The hundred most influential books since the war. (community list)
Preceded by The Emperor's New Mind, and followed by Resources, Values, and Development: Expanded Edition.
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- Richard Rorty (Author)
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- Dewey: 190
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