Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism

Essays on Wilfrid Sellars
Herausgeber: DeVries, Willem A

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading philosophers from both sides of the Atlantic present essays on Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. They discuss empiricism, perception, epistemology, realism, and normativity, showing how vibrant Sellarsian philosophy remains in the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 147mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780199573301
• ISBN-10: 0199573301
• Artikelnr.: 27958795

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: John McDowell: Why Is Sellars's Essay Called Empiricism and the
Philosophy of Mind?
* 2: Robert B. Brandom: Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in
Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism
* 3: Paul Coates: Perception, Imagination and Demonstrative Reference:
A Sellarsian Account
* 4: Paul Snowdon: Some Sellarsian Myths
* 5: Willem A. deVries and Paul Coates: Brandom's Two-Ply Error
* 6: Michael Williams: The Tortoise and the Serpent: Sellars on the
Structure of Empirical Knowledge
* 7: James R. O'Shea: On the Structure of Sellars' Naturalism with a
Normative Turn
* 8: Willem A. deVries: Getting Beyond Idealisms
* 9: Johanna Seibt: Functions Between Reasons and Causes: On Picturing
* 10: Jay F. Rosenberg: On Sellars' Two Images Of The World
* Notes