The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the
leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism a philosophical
approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense
experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within
analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of
contemporary empiricists. "From Empiricism to Expressivism" is a
far-reaching reinterpretation of Sellars from one of the
philosopher s most brilliant intellectual heirs.
Unifying and extending Sellars s most important ideas, Robert
Brandom constructs a theory of pragmatic expressivism which, in
contrast to empiricism, understands meaning and knowledge in terms
of the role expressions play in social practices. The key lies in
Sellars s radical reworking of Kant s idea of the categories: the
idea that the expressive job characteristic of many of the most
important philosophical concepts is not to describe or explain the
empirical world but rather to make explicit essential features of
the conceptual framework that makes description and explanation
possible.
Brandom reconciles otherwise disparate elements of Sellars s
system, revealing a greater level of coherence and consistency in
the philosopher s arguments against empiricism than has usually
been acknowledged. "From Empiricism to Expressivism" clarifies what
Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy
from its Humean to its Kantian phase, and why such a move might be
of crucial importance today."
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