Sellars on Descartes / Christian Barth -- The lingua franca of nominalism : Sellars on Leibniz / Antonio M. Nunziante -- Sellars and Hume on the ontological status of theoretical : explanatory entities / David Landy -- Sellars's interpretive variations on Kant's transcendental idealist themes / James R. O'Shea -- Hegel after Sellars : conceptual connections / Luca Corti -- Peirce and Sellars on nonconceptual content / Catherine Legg -- Sellars and Frege on concepts and laws / Danielle Macbeth -- "We pragmatists mourn Sellars as a lost leader" : Sellars's pragmatist distinction between signifying and picturing / Carl B. Sachs -- The varieties and origins of Wilfrid Sellars's behaviorism / Peter Olen -- Sellars and Carnap : science and/or metaphysics / Carlo Gabbani -- Sellars and Wittgenstein, early and late / Guido Bonino, Paolo Tripodi -- Wilfrid Sellars and Roy Wood Sellars : theoretical continuities and methodological divergences / Fabio Gironi -- Thinking with Sellars and beyond Sellars : on the relations between philosophy and the history of philosophy / Dionysis Christias.
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This edited volume systematically addresses the connection between Wilfrid Sellars and the history of modern philosophy, exploring both the content and method of this relationship. It intends both to analyze Sellars' position in relation to singular thinkers of the modern tradition, and to inquire into Sellars' understanding of philosophy as a field in reflective and constructive conversation with its past. The chapters in Part I cover Sellars' interpretation and use of Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel. Part II features essays on his relationship with Peirce, Frege, Carnap, Wittgenstein, American pragmatism, behaviorism, and American realism, particularly his father, Roy Wood. Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy features original contributions by many of the most renowned Sellars scholars throughout the world. It offers an exhaustive survey of Sellars' views on the historical antecedents and meta-philosophical aspects of his thought.