# Sensations, Thoughts, Language Essays in Honor of Brian Loar Edited **Opening (not a real abstract):** Brian Loar (1939–2014) was an eminent and highly respected philosopher of mind and language. He was at the forefront of several different fielddefining debates between the 1970s and the 2000s—from his earliest work on reducing semantics to psychology, through debates about reference, functionalism, externalism, and the nature of intentionality, to his most enduringly influential work on the explanatory gap between consciousness and neurons. Loar is widely credited with having developed the most comprehensive functionalist account of certain aspects of the mind, and his “phenomenal concept strategy” is arguably one of the most significant developments on the ancient mind/body problem. This volume of essays honours the entirety of Loar’s wide-ranging philosophical career. It features fifteen original essays from influential **Authors:** [[Arthur Sullivan]]