Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University. Stephen Leach is an Honorary Fellow of the Research Institute for Law Politics and Justice at Keele University. He is the author of The Foundations of History (2009), and co-author, with James Connelly and Peter Johnson, of R. G. Collingwood: A Research Companion (2014). James Tartaglia is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of Rorty and the Mirror of Nature (2007) and Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (forthcoming), and editor of Richard Rorty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (2009).

• Foreword Daniel C. Dennett; Introduction Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia; 1. Pragmatism, categories, and language; 2. The limits of reductionism; 3. Realism, categories, and the 'linguistic turn'; 4. The subjectivist principle and the linguistic turn; 5. Empiricism, extensionalism, and reductionism; 6. Mind-body identity, privacy, and categories; 7. Do analysts and metaphysicians disagree?; 8. Incorrigibility as the mark of the mental; 9. Wittgenstein, privileged access, and incommunicability; 10. In defence of eliminative materialism; 11. Cartesian epistemology and changes in ontology; 12. Strawson's objectivity argument; 13. Verificationism and transcendental arguments; 14. Indeterminacy of translation and of truth; 15. Dennett on awareness; 16. Functionalism, machines, and incorrigibility.

'[Rorty's] papers here, all of them, provide a rousing introduction to this revolutionary phase of modern philosophy, and they would support an insightful graduate seminar into the issues that there gripped our own discipline. The editors of this volume are to be congratulated.' Paul Churchland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University. Stephen Leach is an Honorary Fellow of the Research Institute for Law Politics and Justice at Keele University. He is the author of The Foundations of History (2009), and co-author, with James Connelly and Peter Johnson, of R. G. Collingwood: A Research Companion (2014). James Tartaglia is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of Rorty and the Mirror of Nature (2007) and Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (forthcoming), and editor of Richard Rorty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (2009).

• Foreword Daniel C. Dennett; Introduction Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia; 1. Pragmatism, categories, and language; 2. The limits of reductionism; 3. Realism, categories, and the 'linguistic turn'; 4. The subjectivist principle and the linguistic turn; 5. Empiricism, extensionalism, and reductionism; 6. Mind-body identity, privacy, and categories; 7. Do analysts and metaphysicians disagree?; 8. Incorrigibility as the mark of the mental; 9. Wittgenstein, privileged access, and incommunicability; 10. In defence of eliminative materialism; 11. Cartesian epistemology and changes in ontology; 12. Strawson's objectivity argument; 13. Verificationism and transcendental arguments; 14. Indeterminacy of translation and of truth; 15. Dennett on awareness; 16. Functionalism, machines, and incorrigibility.

'[Rorty's] papers here, all of them, provide a rousing introduction to this revolutionary phase of modern philosophy, and they would support an insightful graduate seminar into the issues that there gripped our own discipline. The editors of this volume are to be congratulated.' Paul Churchland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University. Stephen Leach is an Honorary Fellow of the Research Institute for Law Politics and Justice at Keele University. He is the author of The Foundations of History (2009), and co-author, with James Connelly and Peter Johnson, of R. G. Collingwood: A Research Companion (2014). James Tartaglia is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University. He is the author of Rorty and the Mirror of Nature (2007) and Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (forthcoming), and editor of Richard Rorty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (2009).

• Foreword Daniel C. Dennett; Introduction Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia; 1. Pragmatism, categories, and language; 2. The limits of reductionism; 3. Realism, categories, and the 'linguistic turn'; 4. The subjectivist principle and the linguistic turn; 5. Empiricism, extensionalism, and reductionism; 6. Mind-body identity, privacy, and categories; 7. Do analysts and metaphysicians disagree?; 8. Incorrigibility as the mark of the mental; 9. Wittgenstein, privileged access, and incommunicability; 10. In defence of eliminative materialism; 11. Cartesian epistemology and changes in ontology; 12. Strawson's objectivity argument; 13. Verificationism and transcendental arguments; 14. Indeterminacy of translation and of truth; 15. Dennett on awareness; 16. Functionalism, machines, and incorrigibility.

'[Rorty's] papers here, all of them, provide a rousing introduction to this revolutionary phase of modern philosophy, and they would support an insightful graduate seminar into the issues that there gripped our own discipline. The editors of this volume are to be congratulated.' Paul Churchland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews