Revolts Against Epistemological and Metaphysical Dualisms
FAIN: FS-10138-75
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)
Richard M. Rorty (Project Director: January 1975 to present)
To conduct a seminar on the historical roots of the notion of a "veil of ideas" separation the knower from the world and of the notion of mind as a ghostly substance distinct from the body. These images will be connected with recent work in epistemology and philosophy of mind.