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Wilfrid Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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ABSTRACT
This collection features eleven original essays, divided into three thematic sections, which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers. Section I analyzes Sellars’s thought in light of some of his influential predecessors, specifically Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, John Cook Wilson, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. The second group of essays explores from different perspectives Sellars’s place within the analytic tradition, including his relation with analytic Kantianism and analytic pragmatism. The book’s final section extracts some of the most significant lessons Sellars’s work has to offer for contemporary philosophy. These chapters address his views on inference, his views on truth and its connection to recent discussions about truth-relativism and truth-pluralism, his conception of self-knowledge, and his theory of perceptual experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|84 pages
Influences
part Part II|58 pages
Sellars and the Analytic Tradition
chapter 6|20 pages
How Pragmatist was Sellars? Reflections on an Analytic Pragmatism
chapter 7|21 pages
Transcendental Principles and Perceptual Warrant
part Part III|89 pages
Learning From Sellars