ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

ByDAVID PEREPLYOTCHIK, DEBORAH R. BARNBAUM

part |2 pages

PART I Ethics, Moral Reasoning, and Free Will

chapter 1|21 pages

Thought, Freedom, and Embodiment in Kant and Sellars

ByJAMES R. O’SHEA

chapter 2|17 pages

Toward a Sellarsian Ethics for the 21st Century

ByJEREMY RANDEL KOONS

part |2 pages

PART II Philosophy of Language and Mind

part |2 pages

PART III Metaphysics and Epistemology

chapter 7|18 pages

Wilfrid Sellars Meets Cambridge Pragmatism

ByHUW PRICE

chapter 9|17 pages

The Causal Articulation of Practical Reality

ByWILLEM A. DEVRIES

chapter 10|11 pages

Natural Truth

ByDANIELLE MACBETH

chapter 12|22 pages

Categories and Noumena: Two Kantian Axes of Sellars’ Thought

ByROBERT B. BRANDOM