Empiricism, perceptual knowledge, normativity, and realism
Subtitle: essays on Wilfrid Sellars
By: edited by Willem A. deVries.
Contributors: DeVries, Willem A., 1950-
Series: Mind association occasional series
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780199573301
Subjects: Sellars, Wilfrid
Description: These essays 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 they engage with his treatment of crucial issues in metaphysics and epistemology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Why is Sellars's essay called "empiricism and the philosophy of mind"? / John McDowell; title: Pragmatism, inferentialism, and modality in Sellars's arguments against empiricism / Robert B. Brandom; title: Perception, imagination and demonstrative reference : a sellarsian account / Paul Coates; title: Some sellarsian myths / Paul Snowdon; title: Brandom's two-ply error / Willem A. deVries and Paul Coates; title: The tortoise and the serpent : Sellars on the structure of empirical knowledge / Michael Williams; title: On the structure of Sellars's naturalism with a normative turn / James R. O'Shea; title: Getting beyond idealisms / Willem A. deVries; title: Functions between reasons and causes : on picturing / Johanna Seibt; title: On Sellars's two images of the world / Jay F. Rosenberg.