Rorty's Mirror and Kant

Rorty uses the image 'mirror of nature' to characterize Philosophical theories that aim to represent, as accurately as possible, the surrounding world, and he classifies Kant's theory of Knowledge as one of them. But, such a classification is radically erroneous. It is not that the 'mirror' analogy is inappropriate, but that Rorty's application of it to Kant's theory is pre-'Copernican'. Rather than serving as a mirror of Nature, human Knowledge of Nature, according to Kant, is a mirror of Humanity, and the main point of this theory is to delineate the limits of that Knowledge. In other words, Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' demonstrates how human Knowledge anthropomorphizes Nature, a process which Darwin could classify as an adaptation of Nature by the species. Thus, Cassirer seems to understand better than the more explicitly Pragmatistic Rorty, the Kantian thesis that Knowledge, like all Human tools, reflects, first and foremost, its user.