Abstract
Summary This discussion of Richard Rorty's controversial book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is not so much meant to be a critical examination as to provide a clear, non-technical representation of Rorty's views, in a way that shows them to be at the same time highly paradoxical and possibly coherent. Rorty's aim is nothing less than the total deconstruction of traditional philosophy, which he unmasks as a justificationist epistemology operating with the categories of “mind”, “indubitability” and “correspondence with reality”. Rorty wants to show that these categories are not at all the reflections of intuitions, but are contingent and historical notions, misleadingly represented as absolutes in the quest for unifying and ontologically grounded explanations. After deconstructing them, together with the whole project of systematic philosophical research into the essence of knowledge and reality, Rorty wants to make place for a non-epistemological attitude that models the philosophical enterprise after...
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