ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Seiberth broaches a novel path in Sellars scholarship by showing that the exegesis of Kant's critical philosophy lies at the heart of Sellars' conception of intentionality. So instead of working with received distinctions such as left-wing versus right-wing questions or the terminology of opposing Manifest Image with Scientific Image concerns, Seiberth articulates Sellars' commitment to a transcendental methodology. This involves distinguishing three levels of abstractions delineating the role of presuppositional analysis and identifying necessary preconditions and presuppositions of empirical knowledge. The Kantian insight that objects of empirical knowledge have to conform to logically synthetic universal principles is presented in a fresh way in contrast to traditional conceptions of descriptive metaphysics. As a decidedly normative project, Sellars' transcendental methodology is thereby put on the map of received philosophical methods.
