 '''''Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature''''' (published in 1979) is a famous work by American philosopher Richard Rorty. In this book, Rorty attempts to dissolve so-called philosophical problems instead of solving them by showing that they are in fact pseudo-problems that only exist in the language-game of Analytic philosophy. In a pragmatist gesture, Rorty claims that philosophy must get past these pseudo-problems if it is to be productive.  The work was seen to be somewhat &quot;controversial&quot; upon its publication. It had the greatest success among students of analytic philosophy professors, who caused it to sell out within the first days of its publication; the students enjoyed it for being an alternative to the current analytic philosophy dogmas, in a period in which the analytic departments were tightening up on the dogmas even more.Jacques Derrida (1994) [ ''Of the Humanities and Philosophical Disciplines''] Surfaces Vol. VI.108 (v.1.0A - 16/08/1996) - ISSN: 1188-2492 Later republished in ''Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy'' (2002).  ==Contents== Rorty's central thesis is that philosophy has unduly relied on a representational theory of perception and a correspondence theory of truth, hoping our experience or language might mirror the way reality actually is. In this he continues a certain controversial Anglophone tradition, which builds upon the work of philosophers such as Quine, Sellars, and Davidson. Rorty opts out of the traditional objective/subjective dialogue in favor of a communal version of truth. For him, &quot;true&quot; is simply an honorific knowers bestow on claims, asserting them as what &quot;we&quot; want to say about a particular matter.  Rorty spends much of the book explaining how philosophical paradigm shifts and their associated philosophical &quot;problems&quot; can be considered the result of the new metaphors, vocabularies, and mistaken linguistic associations which are necessarily a part of those new paradigms.  ==Notes and references==   