Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism
Essays on Wilfrid Sellars
Published on 26. November 2009
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-19-957330-1 (ISBN)
Description
The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars's accomplishment, they engage with his treatment of crucial issues in metaphysics and epistemology. The topics include the standing of empiricism, Sellars's complex treatment of perception, his dissatisfaction with both foundationalist and coherentist epistemologies, his commitment to realism, and the status of the normative (the "logical space of reasons" and the "manifest image"). The volume shows how vibrant Sellarsian philosophy remains in the 21st century.
Reviews / Votes
Willem deVries has brought together a number of commanding figures in contemporary philosophy, offering careful scholarly articles on a wide range of themes from Sellars. The papers fit together well, covering several themes and writings from Sellars, and frequently providing complementary coverage of certain topics. * Jack C. Lyons, Mind * This collection of essays is an important contribution to the understanding of Sellars's thought. William deVries has brought together a number of commanding figures in contemporary philosophy, offering careful scholarly articles on a wide range of themes from Sellars. The papers fit together well, covering several themes and writings from Sellars, and frequently providing complementary coverage of certain topics. * Jack C. Lyons, Mind *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
584 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-957330-1 (9780199573301)
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Willem A. deVries
Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism
Essays on Wilfrid Sellars
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Willem deVries is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He was a student of Wilfrid Sellars' and has published extensively on his work.
Content
Introduction ; 1. Why Is Sellars's Essay Called Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind? ; 2. Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism ; 3. Perception, Imagination and Demonstrative Reference: A Sellarsian Account ; 4. Some Sellarsian Myths ; 5. Brandom's Two-Ply Error ; 6. The Tortoise and the Serpent: Sellars on the Structure of Empirical Knowledge ; 7. On the Structure of Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn ; 8. Getting Beyond Idealisms ; 9. Functions Between Reasons and Causes: On Picturing ; 10. On Sellars' Two Images Of The World ; Notes