The definitive collection of the early work of one of the most influential and original philosophers of our time.

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.

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University.