ABSTRACT
In the late 1970s, Sellars added a further dimension to his Critical Realist theory of perceptual consciousness. In a key paper, ostensibly focusing on Kant, he spelt out the essential role played by the imagination in perception.1 Sellars argued that the exercise of the imagination acts to bring together the conceptual and the phenomenal, or sensory, components of experience. It is through the role of the imagination that perceptual consciousness is unified.
