Wilfrid Sellars : naturalism with a normative turn / / James R. O'Shea

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, U.K., : Polity, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy; Naturalism
• Classificazione: 133.9; 113.5; 191
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-242) and index
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Dedication""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Key Contemporary Thinkers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""1: The Philosophical Quest and the Clash of the Images""; ""The quest for a stereoscopic fusion of the manifest and scientific images""; ""The clash of the images and the status of the sensible qualities""; ""Sensing, thinking, and willing: persons as complex physical systems?""; ""Notes""; ""2: Scientific Realism and the Scientific Image""; ""Empiricist approaches to the interpretation of scientific theories"" ; ""Sellars' critique of empiricism and his defense of scientific realism""""The ontological primacy of the scientific image""; ""Notes""; ""3: Meaning and Abstract Entities""; ""Approaching thought through language: is meaning a relation?""; ""Sellars' alternative functional role conception of meaning""; ""The problem of abstract entities: introducing Sellars' nominalism""; ""Abstract entities: problems and prospects for the metalinguistic account""; ""Notes""; ""4: Thought, Language, and the Myth of Genius Jones""; ""Meaning and pattern-governed linguistic behavior"" ; ""Bedrock uniformity and rule-following normativity in the space of meanings""""Our Rylean ancestors and genius Jones's theory of inner thoughts""; ""Privileged access and other issues in Sellars' account of thinking""; ""Notes""; ""5: Knowledge, Immediate Experience, and the Myth of the Given""; ""The idea of the given and the case of sense-datum theories""; ""Toward Sellars' account of perception and appearance""; ""Epistemic principles and the holistic structure of our knowledge""; ""Genius Jones, Act Two: the intrinsic character of our sensory experiences""; ""Notes"" ; ""6: Truth, Picturing, and Ultimate Ontology""""Truth as semantic assertibility and truth as correspondence""; ""Picturing, linguistic representation, and reference""; ""Truth, conceptual change, and the ideal scientific image""; ""The ontology of sensory consciousness and absolute processes""; ""Notes""; ""7: A Synoptic Vision: Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn""; ""The structure of Sellars' normative â€?Copernican revolutionâ€?""; ""Intentions, volitions, and the moral point of view""; ""Persons in the synoptic vision""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Works by Wilfrid Sellars"" ; ""Works by other authors""""Index""; ""End User License Agreement""
• Sommario/riassunto: The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and scientific images, have become standard philosophical terms. Often, however, recent uses of these terms do not reflect the richness or the true sense of Sellars original ideas. This book gets to the heart of Sellars philosophy and provides students with a
• Titolo autorizzato: Wilfrid Sellars
• ISBN: 1-5095-0084-7; 1-5095-0086-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Non definito
• Record Nr.: 9910159022203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)