A review by wohnjick
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

 I don't feel sufficiently comfortable rating this book as any adequate appraisal of this book is going to require that one has a backdrop of knowledge I dont posses. Indeed, Rorty is presuming the reader has a (fairly intimate) understanding of philosophy of mind (notably Descartes, Locke, and Kant) and analytic philosophy (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Quine, and others). As I posses, at best, shallow knowledge of these topics I'm in no place to judge Rorty's critiques of them. That being said, Rorty is a good, clear, and at times funny writer and I'm sympathetic to his overall conclusions, albeit not entirely convinced as of yet. Perhaps a revisit when I'm more familiar with who he's responding to would clear things up, but overall if you're at all interested in philosophy of mind, language, or analytic philosophy this would probably be worth reading.