Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most
important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth
century. He was, Richard Rorty writes, "as original a mind as C. S.
Peirce, and it has taken almost as long for the importance of his
ideas to be appreciated." This collection, coedited by Sellars's
chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to
elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult
thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.
The volume presents the most readable of Sellars's essays in a
sequence that illuminates what Robert Brandom calls the
"inferentialist" conception of meaning at the heart of his work.
This conception, laid out in the early essays, is deployed in
various epistemological contexts throughout the book so that, upon
arriving at the concluding papers on Kant, the reader has been
given a "tour d'horizon" not only of the central topics of
philosophy of mind and language, but of much of the history of
philosophy as well--and, with this, a sense of what a shifting of
analytic philosophy from its Humean into its Kantian stage would
entail.
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