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How Pragmatist was Sellars? Reflections on an Analytic Pragmatism

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How Pragmatist was Sellars? Reflections on an Analytic Pragmatism

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ByJames R. O’Shea
BookWilfrid Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
Imprint Routledge
Pages 20
eBook ISBN 9781351202756

ABSTRACT

In this chapter, I argue that Sellars’s philosophy was deeply pragmatist both in its motivation and in its content, whether considered conceptually, historically, or in his own estimation, and that this is the case even in the important respects in which his views differ from most pragmatists. However, this assessment has been rejected by many recent pragmatists, with “classicalist” pragmatists frequently objecting to Sellars’s analytic-pragmatist privileging of language at the alleged expense of experience, while many analytic pragmatists themselves emphasize that Sellars’s philosophy arguably runs against the grain of pragmatism in central respects, with Brandom for instance recently remarking that “Sellars never explicitly identified himself with pragmatism”. Section 1 explores the classical pragmatist influences on the development of Sellars’s philosophy, with reference to aspects of the intellectual background in which those views formed. Section 2 then outlines more abstractly some of the enduring pragmatist themes in Sellars’s philosophy, including his conceptions of the Myth of the Given, the space of reasons, and his normative-inferentialist theory of meaning. I conclude in Section 3 with Sellars’s views on truth and “picturing”, which present a complex case for the question of “how pragmatist” Sellars’s views both were and ought to be.

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