Wilfrid Sellars on Truth

Between Immanence and Transcendence

Stefanie Dach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-80725-6 (ISBN)

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This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar’s notion of ideal truth. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts.

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar’s notion of ideal truth.

Sellars adopts two attractive ideas about truth: the pragmatist idea that the concept of truth cannot be understood independently from the norms and practices we find ourselves with and the realist idea that there is one ultimate truth about how the world is. Sellars is thus committed both to an immanent notion of truth and an ideal notion of truth. This book discusses these countervailing tendencies and tries to reconcile them. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts. Additionally, the author defends several innovative claims with respect to Sellars’s thinking, for example, about the relative unimportance of his controversial concept of pictorial adequacy and about the neglected significance of considerations concerning context-sensitive expressions in his thought.

Wilfrid Sellars on Truth will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wilfrid Sellars, pragmatism, and questions about truth, naturalism, and scientific realism.

Stefanie Dach is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of West Bohemia. She received her Ph.D. in 2018 for a dissertation on Wilfrid Sellars. She has published a book about Richard Rorty and several articles about Wilfrid Sellars, particularly his practical philosophy, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

1. Introduction 2. The Problem Space 3. Learning from Others 4. A Modest Sellarsian Approach 5. Conclusion: Sellars and the Rortean Challenge 6. Appendices

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-80725-3 / 1032807253
ISBN-13	978-1-032-80725-6 / 9781032807256
Zustand	Neuware