Wilfrid Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781032177496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Stefan Brandt; Anke Breunig

Opis

This collection explores the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers. It analyzes his thought in light of his influential predecessors, namely Wittgenstein, Carnap, Lewis, Hönigswald, Wilson, and Ajdukiewicz, and his place within the analytic tradition.

Spis treści

Introduction

Stefan Brandt and Anke Breunig

Part I: Influences

1. Cook Wilson, Sellars, and the Explication of Language

Boris Brandhoff

2. Sellars’s Twist on Carnap’s Syntax

Anke Breunig

3. Ajdukiewicz and Sellars on World Perspectives

Peter Olen

4. Sellars and Wittgenstein on Following a Rule

Stefan Brandt

Part II: Sellars and the Analytic Tradition

5. Wilfrid Sellars as an Analytic Philosopher

Tadeusz Szubka

6. How Pragmatist was Sellars? Reflections on an Analytic Pragmatism

James R. O’Shea

7. Transcendental Principles and Perceptual Warrant: A Case Study in Analytic Kantianism

Johannes Haag

Part III: Learning from Sellars

8. Sellars on Inference

Johannes Hübner

9. Sellars, Truth Pluralism, and Truth Relativism

Lionel Shapiro

10. Some Remarks on Sellars’s Theory of Experience

Willem A. deVries

11. Sellars on Self-Knowledge

Franz Knappik

O autorze

Stefan Brandt is Assistant Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His work has been published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Philosophical Investigations.

Anke Breunig is Assistant Professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany