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This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about?
And how do the results of linguistic theorizing bear on inquiry in
related fields, particularly in psychology? The book develops views
that depart from received wisdom in both philosophy and
linguistics. With regard to questions concerning the subject
matter, methodological goals, and ontological commitments of formal
syntactic theorizing, it argues that the cognitive conception
adopted by most linguists and philosophers is not the only
acceptable view, and that the arguments in its favor collapse under
scrutiny. Nevertheless, as the book shows, a detailed examination
of the relevant psycholinguistic results and computational models
does support the claim that the theoretical constructs of formal
linguistics are operative in real-time language comprehension.
These constructs fall into two categories: mental phrase markers
and mental syntactic principles. Both are indeed psychologically
real, but in importantly different ways. The book concludes by
drawing attention to the importance of the often-elided distinction
between personal and subpersonal psychological states and
processes, as well as the logical character of dispositional and
occurrent states. By clarifying these concepts, particularly by
reference to up-and-running psychological and computational models,
the book yields a richer and more satisfying perspective on the
psychological reality of language.
Wilfrid Sellars made profound and lasting contributions to nearly
every area of philosophy. The aim of this collection is to
highlight the continuing importance of Sellars' work to
contemporary debates. The contributors include several luminaries
in Sellars scholarship, as well as members of the new generation
whose work demonstrates the lasting power of Sellars' ideas. Papers
by O'Shea and Koons develop Sellars' underexplored views concerning
ethics, practical reasoning, and free will, with an emphasis on his
longstanding engagement with Kant. Sachs, Hicks and Pereplyotchik
relate Sellars' views of mental phenomena to current topics in
cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Fink, deVries, Price,
Macbeth, Christias, and Brandom grapple with traditional Sellarsian
themes, including meaning, truth, existence, and objectivity.
Brandhoff provides an original account of the evolution of Sellars'
philosophy of language and his project of "pure pragmatics". The
volume concludes with an author-meets-critics section centered
around Robert Brandom's recent book, From Empiricism to
Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars, with original commentaries and
replies.
Wilfrid Sellars made profound and lasting contributions to nearly
every area of philosophy. The aim of this collection is to
highlight the continuing importance of Sellars' work to
contemporary debates. The contributors include several luminaries
in Sellars scholarship, as well as members of the new generation
whose work demonstrates the lasting power of Sellars' ideas. Papers
by O'Shea and Koons develop Sellars' underexplored views concerning
ethics, practical reasoning, and free will, with an emphasis on his
longstanding engagement with Kant. Sachs, Hicks and Pereplyotchik
relate Sellars' views of mental phenomena to current topics in
cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Fink, deVries, Price,
Macbeth, Christias, and Brandom grapple with traditional Sellarsian
themes, including meaning, truth, existence, and objectivity.
Brandhoff provides an original account of the evolution of Sellars'
philosophy of language and his project of "pure pragmatics". The
volume concludes with an author-meets-critics section centered
around Robert Brandom's recent book, From Empiricism to
Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars, with original commentaries and
replies.
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