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Essays in Philosophy and Its History (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974): Wilfrid Sellars Essays in Philosophy and Its History (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974)
Wilfrid Sellars
R5,816 Discovery Miles 58 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion."

Essays in Philosophy and Its History (Hardcover, 1974 ed.): Wilfrid Sellars Essays in Philosophy and Its History (Hardcover, 1974 ed.)
Wilfrid Sellars
R6,058 Discovery Miles 60 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion."

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Paperback, New): Wilfrid Sellars Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Paperback, New)
Wilfrid Sellars; Introduction by Richard Rorty; Supplement by Robert B. Brandom
R978 R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Save R209 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Knowledge, Mind & the Given (Paperback): Willem A. DeVries, Timm Triplett, Wilfrid Sellars Knowledge, Mind & the Given (Paperback)
Willem A. DeVries, Timm Triplett, Wilfrid Sellars
R618 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R40 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Sellars' s argument in EPM is enormously rich, subtle, and compelling. It is also, for the uninitiated, extraordinarily dense. Willem deVries and Timm Triplett's comprehensive commentary Knowledge, Mind, and the Given provides a much needed guide. Beginning with a general overview to introduce some main themes and difficulties, deVries and Triplett take the reader step by step through the sixteen parts of the essay, providing at each stage necessary background, illuminating connections, and insightful clarifications of the main lines of argument. . . . deVries and Triplett have written a fine introduction to Sellars's most important work." --Danielle Macbeth, The Philosophical Review

Science, Perception, and Reality (Hardcover): Wilfrid Sellars Science, Perception, and Reality (Hardcover)
Wilfrid Sellars
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Science, Perception, and Reality (Paperback): Wilfrid Sellars Science, Perception, and Reality (Paperback)
Wilfrid Sellars
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Space of Reasons - Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars (Hardcover): Wilfrid Sellars In the Space of Reasons - Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars (Hardcover)
Wilfrid Sellars; Edited by Kevin Scharp, Robert B. Brandom
R2,312 Discovery Miles 23 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Philosophical Perspectives - History of Philosophy (Paperback): Wilfrid Sellars Philosophical Perspectives - History of Philosophy (Paperback)
Wilfrid Sellars
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Naturalism and Ontology (Paperback): Wilfrid Sellars Naturalism and Ontology (Paperback)
Wilfrid Sellars
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Science, Perception and Reality (Paperback): Wilfrid Sellars Science, Perception and Reality (Paperback)
Wilfrid Sellars
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Readings in Philosophical Analysis (Paperback): Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars Readings in Philosophical Analysis (Paperback)
Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contributing Authors Include William Kneale, W. V. Quine, Alfred Tarski, Bertrand Russell, And Many Others.

Readings in Philosophical Analysis (Hardcover): Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars Readings in Philosophical Analysis (Hardcover)
Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars
R1,700 Discovery Miles 17 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contributing Authors Include William Kneale, W. V. Quine, Alfred Tarski, Bertrand Russell, And Many Others.

Science and Metaphysics : Variations on Kantian Themes (Paperback): Wilfrid Sellars Science and Metaphysics : Variations on Kantian Themes (Paperback)
Wilfrid Sellars
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback): Wilfrid Sellars Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)
Wilfrid Sellars
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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