Abstract
Richard Rorty (b. 1931) is known as a pragmatist, a social commentator, and a public intellectual. Representative of Rorty's mature work is his book Philosophy and the mirror of nature. A critique of epistemology is contained in its earlier parts, of the notion inherited from the past that it is a combined development of the ideas of mind, knowledge, and of earlier philosophy itself. This critique leads in later work to the characteristic doctrine of epistemological behaviorism, by which Rorty maintains that knowledge is constrained only by conversational constraints. It is significant to note that most of Rorty's work is achieved in conversation with linguistic and analytic philosophers such as Wittgenstein, Quine, Sellars, Davidson, and Putnam.
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