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Sellars and his Legacy (Hardcover)
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Sellars and his Legacy (Hardcover)
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This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and
intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars
(1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on
contemporary debates about mind, meaning, knowledge, and
metaphysics has never been greater. Sellars was among the most
important philosophers of the twentieth century, and many of his
central ideas have become philosophical stock-in-trade: for
example, his conceptions of the 'myth of the given', the 'logical
space of reasons', and the 'clash' between the 'manifest and
scientific images of man-in-the-world'. This volume of well-known
contemporary philosophers who have been strongly influenced by
Sellars-Robert Brandom, Willem deVries, Robert Kraut, Rebecca
Kukla, Mark Lance, John McDowell, Ruth Millikan, James O'Shea,
David Rosenthal, Johanna Seibt, and Michael Williams-critically
examines the groundbreaking ideas by means of which Sellars sought
to integrate our thought, perception, and rational agency within a
naturalistic outlook on reality. Topics include Sellars's
inferentialist semantics and normative functionalist view of the
mind; his attempted reconciliations of internalist and externalist
aspects of thought, meaning, and knowledge; his novel nominalist
account of abstract entities; and a speculative 'pure process'
metaphysics of consciousness. Of particular interest is how this
volume exhibits the ongoing fruitful dialogue between so-called
'left-wing Sellarsians', who stress Sellars's various Kantian and
pragmatist defenses of the irreducibility of normativity and
rationality within the space of reasons, and 'right-wing
Sellarsians' who defend the plausibility of Sellars's highly
ambitious and systematic scientific naturalism.
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