Natural Agents: A Transcendental Argument for Pragmatic Naturalism

I distinguish between two phases of Rorty's naturalism: "non-reductive physicalism" (NRP) and "pragmatic naturalism" (PN). NRP holds that the vocabulary of mental states is irreducible that of physical states, but this irreducibility does not distinguish the mental from other irreducible vocabularies. PN differs by explicitly accepting a naturalistic argument for the transcendental status of the vocabulary of agency. Though I present some reasons for preferring PN over NRP, PN depends on whether 'normativity' can be 'naturalized'.