Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>: > Yesterday I wrote > > > He rejects it (in PATMON) via rejecting what he sees as a traditional > > view got from Descartes (and common, I'd say, to many philosophers) that > > the mind is some sort of surface or mirror with reflects (and somehow > > retains its reflections of) the world outside it. > > Should be 'which reflects.' Apart from that one inexcusable foible, I believe RP accurately portrays the basic gist of the views of the early Rorty. (Though later than *The linguistic turn* of course.) But I think the texts that are more centrally relevant to our thread concerning the transcendental as a form of inquiry, and Rorty's woefully mistaken views surrounding this topic, are abundantly illustrated in specific essays collected in the 3 volumes of his *Collected Papers.* (Esp. vol 1 and 2). I may be the prince of "casual dismissals," but Rorty is surely the king of this domain. When he was here at MUN a few years ago, I asked him a question about Kant's moral theory. The "down his nose" response I received was: "Well, Kant wrote before Darwin ... anybody else?" Returning to his newly assigned real and virtual students, Walter O. > > RP > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html