The most important work by one of America's greatest
twentieth-century philosophers, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of
Mind" is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical
system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First
published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change
in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell
and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by
acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in
"Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" was a decisive move in
turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives
of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of
"epistemology."
With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work
within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by
Robert Brandom, this publication of "Empiricism and the Philosophy
of Mind" makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in
the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to
anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.
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