 Rorty, in his now classic Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, presents a ranging critique of modern philosophy that focuses on epistemology, especially the idea that knowledge is a representation or mental ‘mirroring’ of mind-independent reality. Against epistemology, Rorty proposes hermeneutics, which he characterizes as “an expression of hope that the cultural space left behind by the demise of epistemology will not be filled…” (Rorty 1979, 315). Hermeneutics holds this void open with what he calls ‘conversation.’ In this, conversation pursues not the truth, conceived as a correspondence of mind and mind-independent reality, but, instead, edification (Rorty 1979, 318, 360, 378). Edification, itself Rorty’s proposed translation of the German Bildung (Piercy 2016, 447) concerns not truth, then, but instead the discovery of new and useful possibilities.