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Jan 29, 2020 · It recounts how they met, some aspects of his career, and his death due to alcoholism. It also includes some of her slightly odd metaphysical reflections, those can be... Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Wilfrid Sellars, a personal recollection...
Feb 22, 1997 · Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (b. 1912, d. 1989) was a profoundly creative and synthetic thinker whose work both as a systematic philosopher and as an influential editor helped set and shape the Anglo-American philosophical agenda for over four decades. Sellars is perhaps best known for his classic 1956 essay “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind ...
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In his well-known essay “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man,” Wilfrid Sellars claims that the modern philosopher is faced “by two pictures of essentially the same order of complexity, each of which pur-ports to be a complete picture of man-in-the-world” (Sellars 1962, 4), the manifest image (MI) and the scientific image (SI).
- The Cartesian Background
- Requirements For A Theory of Mind
- The Challenge of Mental Episodes
- Sellars’ Positive Account: The Myth of Jones, I
- Sellars’ Positive Account: The Myth of Jones, II
- The Nature of Thinking and Sensing
- References For Further Reading
- B. Secondary Texts
Wilfrid Sellars (b.1912 – d.1989) was a systematic philosopher par excellence. As a consequence, attempts to understand his views on mind lead towards other areas of philosophy. In particular, Sellars’ theory of mind is intertwined with his views on language, epistemology, science, and metaphysics. This entry focuses on his account of mind and draw...
Let us now explore more thoroughly and precisely the various elements Sellars believes a viable theory of mind requires. This will put us in a better position to understand the goals and objectives of the long story Sellars tells about minds, including what emerges in the famous “Myth of Jones.” Now while Descartes assimilates all mental occurrence...
We’ve noted that mental episodes are traditionally thought of as best known by the person who has them: they are private and known directly. Other people, in contrast it seems, can have at best indirect knowledge of our own. Why? Because traditionally conceived, such mental episodes exist within the private, inner realm of one’s mind and are only s...
This puzzle, and subsequent resolution, makes for one of the most famous planks in Sellars’ philosophy, spelled out in his landmark article, “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.” The answer, ironically, comes in the form of a myth; the Myth of the Given is now replaced by Sellars’s own, Myth of Jones. This new myth has two parts: how we come to ...
Sellars’ account of sensations, the final chapter in the Myth of Jones, is designed to capture another important element in an overall theory of mind, namely that some of our private, mental episodes are a result of our sensory encounters with the world. By interacting with the world we are caused to have sensations, which vary from pain and pleasu...
Much ground has been covered so far. But students of contemporary analytic philosophy of mind may still find themselves unsatisfied. Though an account has been given that preserves the inner nature of mental episodes, while keeping with certain demands on the nature of knowledge and awareness, one may still find themselves with such questions as: “...
a. Primary Texts
1. Sellars, Wilfrid. “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” in Science, Perception and Reality. (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Co, 1991). 1.1. This paper is a philosophical classic, and is widely held to be one of the most important essays of twentieth century philosophy. It contains Sellars’ discussion of both the Myth of the Given and the Myth of Jones. The essay has been republished in book form, with a helpful study guide, as: 2. Sellars, Wilfrid. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Min...
deVries, Willem A., and Timm Triplett. Knowledge, Mind, and the Given: Reading Wilfrid Sellars’ “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000). A book length...Delaney, C.F., Michael J. Loux, Gary Gutting, and W. David Solomon. eds. The Synoptic Vision: Essays on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977).deVries, Willem A. Wilfrid Sellars.Philosophy Now Series. (London: Acumen Publishing and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2005).O’Shea, James. Wilfrid Sellars. (London: Routledge Press) Forthcoming.Mar 7, 2022 · Part I reconstructs and isolates Sellars’s argument for “sensation,” situating his adverbial interpretation of the notion within his broader theory of perception. Part II positions Sellars’s views vis-à-vis current conversations on adverbalism.
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Oct 14, 2016 · Wilfrid Sellars was not only one of the last systematic philosophers of the twentieth century but also continues to be relevant in light of his impact on the development of analytic philosophy in America and abroad. Sellars developed influential arguments for the rejection of the given in epistemology, a unique account of non-conceptual content ...
May 1, 2020 · Wilfrid Sellars’s “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man” (PSIM) has a curiously mixed reputation. Its opening pages, what I’ll call its “metaphilosophical prologue,” contain some of the most familiar passages in Sellars’s oeuvre, starting with the first line: “The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the ...
