The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars

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ID23155203
AuthorsJeremy Randel Koons (0000-0002-5492-348X, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-12-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEthics of Wilfrid Sellars (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315201160
OpenAlexW2946877103
Open LibraryOL39357004M
ISBN9781315201160
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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.

Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · American Philosophy · Brandom · Categorical validity · Cooperative rationality · Derivative concern · Ethical Theory · Ethics · Ethics & Moral Philosophy · Expressivism · Humean rejoinder · I-intentions · Individual rationality · Intentions · Intrinsic validity · Jeremy Koons · Material inference · Material practical inference · McDowell · Metaethics · Moral judgments · Moral motivation · Moral reasoning · Motivation · Non-derivative concern · Norm-expressivism · Objectivity · Practical reasoning · Rationality · Realism · Scientific view of the world · Scope restrictions · Sellars · Team reasoning · Toward a Sellarsian Ethics for the 21st Century · We-intentions · Wilfrid Sellars · Willem deVries

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