Introduction / Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia -- Pragmatism, categories, and language -- The limits of reductionism -- Realism, categories and the "linguistic turn" -- The subjectivist principle and the linguistic turn -- Empiricism, extensionalism, and reductionism -- Mind-body identity, privacy, and categories -- Do analysts and metaphysicians disagree? -- Incorrigibility as the mark of the mental -- Wittgenstein, privileged access, and incommunicability -- In defense of eliminative materialism -- Cartesian epistemology and change in ontology -- Strawson's objectivity argument -- Verificationism and transcendental arguments -- Indeterminacy of translation and of truth -- Dennett on awareness -- Functionalism, machines, and incorrigibility.
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