Wilfrid Sellars
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 961649 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wilfrid Sellars |
| PRENOMES | Wilfrid |
| SOBRENOME | Sellars |
| ASSINATURA | SELLARS W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 150 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1947 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Metaphysics of Practice
Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) saw the development of his practical philosophy as central to his entire philosophical enterprise—the linchpin to situating the framework of persons within a scientific worldview. The core idea in Sellars’s moral writings is that the moral “ought” is to be understood as a special kind of intention. Specifically, moral judgments are we-intentions, practical commitments one makes “as one of us” or from the communal point…
Metaphysics of Practice
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
Immanuel Kant calls his idealism ‘transcendental’ in order to indicate that it enables him to account for the existence of synthetic apriori knowledge concerning objects in space and time; he has, strictly speaking, no use for the term ‘transcendental realism.’ Roughly, Kant’s transcendental realist thinks of the perceiver as deriving the rules by induction from experience, whereas Kant thinks that induction itself presupposes an antecedent grasp…
Knowledge, Mind, and the Given
This book serves three purposes, and it serves them very well. First, it patiently, accurately and comprehensively supplies the necessary information about the historical and contemporaneous ideas, views, problems and theories which constitute the conceptual setting for Sellars's theses and argumentation. Second, it provides a careful and lucid section-by-section interpretative explanation of Sellars's own principal views and claims and, cruciall…
Knowledge, Mind, and the Given
Empiricism and the philosophy of mind
Introduction by Richard Rorty An Ambiguity in Sense-Datum Theories Another Language? The Logic of 'Looks' Explaining Looks Impressions and Ideas: a Logical Point Impressions and Ideas: A Historical Point The Logic of 'Means' Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation? Science and Ordinary Usage Private Episodes: The Problem Thoughts: The Classical View Our Rylean Ancestors Theories and Models Methodological versus Philosophical Behaviorism The Lo…
On Accepting First Principles
My purpose in this essay is to examine the authority of first principles. The first principles I shall discuss may not have the full stature, the all-around primacy usually associated with this term. Indeed some of them would be taken by many to belong to a much lower order, if they are accepted as 'principles' at all. But principles they are, I shall argue, and, in a legitimate sense, 'first.' It is clear that a first principle does not gain its…
Naturalism and Ontology
Philosophical Perspectives History of Philosophy
Meaning as functional classification
Essays in Philosophy and Its History
Conceptual Change
Reply to Quine
Is there Progress in Philosophy
Science and Metaphysics
Book Reviews Get access Science and Metaphysics : Variations on Kantian Themes. By Wilfrid Sellars. (London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1968. Pp. x + 246. Price 35s) Leslie Stevenson Leslie Stevenson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 78, January 1970, Pages 86–87, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217923 Published: 01 January 1970
Science and Metaphysics
Are There Non-Deductive Logics?
Philosophical Perspectives
Language as Thought and as Communication
Some problems about belief
Some Remarks on Kant's Theory of Experience
Kant never tires of telling us that Nature and the Space and Time which are its forms exist as a system of “representations.” Now a prepresentation is either a representing or a something represented. Does Kant mean that nature is a system of representings? Or that it is a system of representeds? And, in any case, what would the claim amount to
Science, Perception, and Reality
Induction as Vindication
I shall attempt in this paper to give a rounded, if schematic, account of the concept of probability. My central concern will be to clarify the sense in which law-like statements (including ‘statistical’ law-like statements) are made probable by observational data which, in a sense equally demanding analysis, ‘accord’ with them
New readings in philosophical analysis
Kant And Pre-kantian Themes
Meaning as functional classification
Language as Thought and as Communication
Some Reflections on Language Games
1. It seems plausible to say that a language is a system of expressions the use of which is subject to certain rules. It would seem, thus, that learning to use a language is learning to obey the rules for the use of its expressions. However, taken as it stands, this thesis is subject to an obvious and devastating refutation. After formulating this refutation, I shall turn to the constructive task of attempting to restate the thesis in a way which…
Concepts as Involving Laws and Inconceivable Without Them
Formal implication is usually represented by symbolization such as ‘(x) φ x ⊃ Ψx,’ which may be read, “for all values of ‘x’, φ x (materially) implies Ψx.” If the values of the variable ‘x’, in ‘φ x’ and ‘Ψx’ be ‘x 1 ’ ‘x 2 ’ ‘x 3 ’, etc., then ... ‘ φ x’ formally implies ‘Ψx’ if and only if, whatever values of ‘x’, ‘x n ’, be chosen, ‘ φ x n ’ materially implies ‘Ψx n ’ ... However, this still leaves it doubtful which of two possible interpretat…
Some Remarks on Kant's Theory of Experience
Kant never tires of telling us that Nature and the Space and Time which are its forms exist as a system of “representations.” Now a prepresentation is either a representing or a something represented. Does Kant mean that nature is a system of representings? Or that it is a system of representeds? And, in any case, what would the claim amount to
Essays in Philosophy and Its History
Presupposing
Readings in Ethical Theory
Science, Perception, and Reality
Realism and the New Way of Words
Some problems about belief
Naming and Saying
The essay adopts the Tractarian view that configurations of objects are expressed by configurations of names. Two alternatives are considered: The objects in atomic facts are (1) without exception particulars ; (2) one or more particulars plus a universal (Gustav Bergmann). On (1) a mode of configuration is always an empirical relation: on (2) it is the logical nexus of ‘exemplification.’ It is argued that (1) is both Wittgenstein's view in the T…
Is there a Synthetic a Priori
A survey of the literature on the problem of the synthetic a priori soon reveals that the term “analytic” is used in a narrower and a broader sense. In the narrower sense, a proposition is analytic if it is either a truth of logic or is logically true. By saying of a proposition that it is logically true, I mean, roughly, and with an eye on the problem of the relation of logical categories to natural languages, that when defined terms are replace…
Particulars
Science and Metaphysics
Notes on Intentionality
Physical Realism
Obligation and motivation
Quotation Marks, Sentences, and Propositions
Pure Pragmatics and Epistemology
The attempt to draw a clear distinction between Philosophy and the empirical sciences can almost be taken as the defining trait of the analytic movement in contemporary philosophical thought. The empirical science that has most frequently threatened to swallow up questions of particular interest to philosophers since the time of Descartes has been psychology. Characteristic, then, of analytic philosophy has been the rejection of what it terms psy…
Philosophical Perspectives
Induction as Vindication
I shall attempt in this paper to give a rounded, if schematic, account of the concept of probability. My central concern will be to clarify the sense in which law-like statements (including ‘statistical’ law-like statements) are made probable by observational data which, in a sense equally demanding analysis, ‘accord’ with them
"Vlastos and "The Third Man
Elements of Analytic Philosophy
Language and Myth
Pure Pragmatics and Epistemology
The attempt to draw a clear distinction between Philosophy and the empirical sciences can almost be taken as the defining trait of the analytic movement in contemporary philosophical thought. The empirical science that has most frequently threatened to swallow up questions of particular interest to philosophers since the time of Descartes has been psychology. Characteristic, then, of analytic philosophy has been the rejection of what it terms psy…
Concepts as Involving Laws and Inconceivable Without Them
Formal implication is usually represented by symbolization such as ‘(x) φ x ⊃ Ψx,’ which may be read, “for all values of ‘x’, φ x (materially) implies Ψx.” If the values of the variable ‘x’, in ‘φ x’ and ‘Ψx’ be ‘x 1 ’ ‘x 2 ’ ‘x 3 ’, etc., then ... ‘ φ x’ formally implies ‘Ψx’ if and only if, whatever values of ‘x’, ‘x n ’, be chosen, ‘ φ x n ’ materially implies ‘Ψx n ’ ... However, this still leaves it doubtful which of two possible interpretat…
Realism and the New Way of Words
Language and Myth
Readings in Philosophical Analysis
Quotation Marks, Sentences, and Propositions
Elements of Analytic Philosophy
Methods of Inquiry
Obligation and motivation
Particulars
Iii.—inference and Meaning
Journal Article III.—INFERENCE AND MEANING Get access WILFRID SELLARS WILFRID SELLARS University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LXII, Issue 247, July 1953, Pages 313–338, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LXII.247.313 Published: 01 July 1953
Is there a Synthetic a Priori
A survey of the literature on the problem of the synthetic a priori soon reveals that the term “analytic” is used in a narrower and a broader sense. In the narrower sense, a proposition is analytic if it is either a truth of logic or is logically true. By saying of a proposition that it is logically true, I mean, roughly, and with an eye on the problem of the relation of logical categories to natural languages, that when defined terms are replace…
Readings in Ethical Theory
Some Reflections on Language Games
1. It seems plausible to say that a language is a system of expressions the use of which is subject to certain rules. It would seem, thus, that learning to use a language is learning to obey the rules for the use of its expressions. However, taken as it stands, this thesis is subject to an obvious and devastating refutation. After formulating this refutation, I shall turn to the constructive task of attempting to restate the thesis in a way which…
Presupposing
Physical Realism
"Vlastos and "The Third Man
I. Substance and Form in Aristotle
Ii
Naming and Saying
The essay adopts the Tractarian view that configurations of objects are expressed by configurations of names. Two alternatives are considered: The objects in atomic facts are (1) without exception particulars ; (2) one or more particulars plus a universal (Gustav Bergmann). On (1) a mode of configuration is always an empirical relation: on (2) it is the logical nexus of ‘exemplification.’ It is argued that (1) is both Wittgenstein's view in the T…
Frontiers of Science and Philosophy
Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man
Induction as Vindication
I shall attempt in this paper to give a rounded, if schematic, account of the concept of probability. My central concern will be to clarify the sense in which law-like statements (including ‘statistical’ law-like statements) are made probable by observational data which, in a sense equally demanding analysis, ‘accord’ with them
Notes on Intentionality
Science, Perception, and Reality
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