Cover; Half Title; Series page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Situating Sellars's Ethical Theory in the Contemporary Landscape; 1 Sellars's Synoptic Vision; 2 A New Naturalism; 3 Moral Judgments as Shared Intentions; 4 What Are Sellarsian We-Intentions?; 5 Practical Reasoning and the Logic of Intentions; 6 Material Practical Inference; 7 Cooperative Rationality and We-Intentions; 8 Defeasible Rules and the Particularist Challenge; 9 Rules, Pattern-Governed Behavior, and Collective Attitudes; 10 Moral Motivation 1-Against the Humean Account
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11 Moral Motivation 2-Sellars's Kantian Account12 Against Moral Foundationalism; 13 Categorical Validity and the Necessity of Community; 14 Sellars's Mistaken Formalism; 15 Sellars's Ethical Naturalism; Works Cited; Index
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Wilfrid Sellars's ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars's view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate of an expressivism of plans and intentions, and an early theorist of collective intentionality. He supplemented this theory with a sophisticated logic of intentions, a robust theory of the categorical validity of normative expressions, a subtle way of reconciling the cognitive and motivating aspects of moral judgment, and much more-all within a strict nominalism that preserves Sellars's commitment to naturalism. The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars offers the first systematic treatment of this sadly-neglected aspect of Sellars's work, and demonstrates that his ethical theory-just like his more widely-discussed epistemology-has much to contribute to current debates.