Sellars and his Legacy

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-876687-2 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the thought and intellectual legacy of Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989), one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A team of experts critically examines the groundbreaking means by which Sellars sought to integrate our thought, perception, and rational agency within a naturalistic outlook on reality.

This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on contemporary debates about mind, meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics has never been greater. Sellars was among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and many of his central ideas have become philosophical stock-in-trade: for example, his conceptions of the 'myth of the given', the 'logical space of reasons', and the 'clash' between the 'manifest and scientific images of man-in-the-world'. This volume of well-known contemporary philosophers who have been strongly influenced by Sellars--Robert Brandom, Willem deVries, Robert Kraut, Rebecca Kukla, Mark Lance, John McDowell, Ruth Millikan, James O'Shea, David Rosenthal, Johanna Seibt, and Michael Williams--critically examines the groundbreaking ideas by means of which Sellars sought to integrate our thought, perception, and rational agency within a naturalistic outlook on reality. Topics include Sellars's inferentialist semantics and normative functionalist view of the mind; his attempted reconciliations of internalist and externalist aspects of thought, meaning, and knowledge; his novel nominalist account of abstract entities; and a speculative 'pure process' metaphysics of consciousness. Of particular interest is how this volume exhibits the ongoing fruitful dialogue between so-called 'left-wing Sellarsians', who stress Sellars's various Kantian and pragmatist defenses of the irreducibility of normativity and rationality within the space of reasons, and 'right-wing Sellarsians' who defend the plausibility of Sellars's highly ambitious and systematic scientific naturalism.

James O'Shea has taught at University College Dublin (UCD) since receiving his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. He has published several books and numerous articles on Hume and Kant, on pragmatism and the history of American philosophy, and in the general areas of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is currently writing on Kant's critical philosophy and on contemporary problems concerning scientific naturalism, pragmatism, and normativity.

James R. O'Shea: Introduction
1: Robert B. Brandom: Sellars's Metalinguistic Expressivist Nominalism
2: Willem A. deVries: Images, Descriptions, and Pictures: Personhood and The Clash
3: Robert Kraut: Norm and Object: How Sellars Saves Metaphysics from the Pragmatist Onslaught
4: Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance: Speaking and Thinking
5: John McDowell: A Sellarsian Blind Spot
6: Ruth Garrett Millikan: Confessions of a Renegade Daughter
7: James R. O'Shea: What To Take Away from Sellars's Kantian Naturalism
8: David Rosenthal: Quality Spaces, Relocation, and Grain
9: Johanna Seibt: How To Naturalize Sensory Consciousness and Intentionality Within A Process Monism with Normativity Gradient: A Reading of Sellars
10: Michael Williams: Pragmatism, Sellars, and Truth

Erscheinungsdatum	11.06.2016
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-19-876687-4 / 0198766874
ISBN-13	978-0-19-876687-2 / 9780198766872
Zustand	Neuware