Empiricism, perceptual knowledge, normativity, and realism :
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[Book]
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essays on Wilfrid Sellars /
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edited by Willem A. deVries.
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
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2009.
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1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages)
SERIES
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Mind Association occasional series
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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List of Contributors; References for Sellars's Works; Introduction; 1. Why Is Sellars's Essay Called "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"?; 2. Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism; 3. Perception, Imagination, and Demonstrative Reference: A Sellarsian Account; 4. Some Sellarsian Myths; 5. Brandom's Two-Ply Error; 6. The Tortoise and the Serpent: Sellars on the Structure of Empirical Knowledge; 7. On the Structure of Sellars's Naturalism with a Normative Turn; 8. Getting Beyond Idealisms.
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The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars's accomplishment, they engage with his treatment of crucial issues in metaphysics and epistemology. The topics include the standing of empiricism, Sellars's complex treatment of perception, hisdissatisfaction with both foundationalist and coherentist epistemologies, his commitment to realism, and the status of the norma.
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Empiricism, perceptual knowledge, normativity, and realism.