SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS by Wilfrid Sellars
Variations on Kantian Themes
Preface
I. Sensibility and Understanding
II. Appearances and Things In Themselves 1. Material Things
III. The Conceptual and The Real 1. Intentionality
IV. The Conceptual and The Real 2. Truth
V. The Conceptual and The Real 3. Picturing
VI. Appearances and Things In Themselves 2. Persons
VII. Objectivity, Intersubjectivity and The Moral Point of View
Appendix: Inner Sense
Index; Corrections
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SCIENCE, PERCEPTION, AND REALITY by Wilfrid Sellars
Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man
Being and Being Known
Phenomenalism
The Language of Theories
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
Truth and ‘Correspondence’
Naming and Saying
Grammar and Existence: A Preface to Ontology
Particulars
Is There a Synthetic A Priori?
Some Reflections on Language Games
Index; Corrections
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KANT AND PRE-KANTIAN THEMES: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars
Edited by Pedro Amaral
Contents (Chapters only)
1. Introductory Remarks to the Class
2. Adverbial Theories of Sensing
3. Act-Content
4. Thinking and Representables
5. More on Transcendental Idealism
6. Intuition and Space
7. Intuition and Sensation
8. Space, Time, and Relations
9. Appearance and the In Itself
10. Why Have the In Itself?
11. Categories and Intuition in the Schematism and Transcendental Deduction
12. Judging; Objective Validity and Association
13. Time and Experience of Change
14. Kant on the Experience of Change
15. Space, the Form of Outer Sense, and the σ dimension
16. The Analogies
17. Some Questions
Appendices
Descartes
Locke
Historical Setting in the Spinoza Lecture: love, the intellect, and individual immortality by Pedro Amaral
Spinoza
Leibniz
Aristotelian Philosophies of Mind
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KANT’S TRANSCENDENTAL METAPHYSICS: Sellars’ Cassirer Lectures Notes and Other Essays
Edited and introduced by Jeffrey F. Sicha
CONTENTS (main sections of the introduction and Sellars’ essays)
INTRODUCTION
I. Prologue: On reading Kant and Sellars
A. The problem in general terms
B. An example
C. A small point
D. A special case
II. A Look at the surface
A. Transcendental Idealism
B. Some distinctions: ings versus eds
C. Back to Transcendental Idealism: Appearances as Representables
D. Things in Themselves
III.“A Little Lower Layer”
A. Concepts and Intuitions
B. Sellars’ Account of Intuitions
C. A Transcendental Logic: The Categories
IV. “Into the Heart”
A. What does Kant Believe about Sensory States?
B. What should Kant Believe about Sensory States?
V. “Nothing of Him that doth Fade, but doth Suffer a Sea-change into Something Rich and Strange”
A. More Kantian Advantages from a Sellarsian Aesthetic
B. Thinkers and Perceivers in Themselves and as Part of Nature
C. Transcendental Idealism again
SELLARS’ ESSAYS
Ontology, the A Priori and Kant
Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience
Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person
On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse
Toward a Theory of the Categories “...this I or he or it (the thing) which thinks...”
Berkeley and Descartes: Reflections on the Theory of Ideas
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
The Role of Imagination in Kant’s Theory of Experience
Some Reflections on Perceptual Consciousness
On Accepting First Principles
Sellars’ Cassirer Lectures Notes
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THE METAPHYSICS OF EPISTEMOLOGY: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars
Edited by Pedro V. Amaral
Wilfrid Sellars gave these lectures on the metaphysics of epistemology during the fall of 1975... . Considerable effort has been taken to preserve the pictures drawn during discussion. Without them, the lectures would be qualitatively different. As Sellars once remarked, “The traditional way of looking at things was in terms of a picture and I mean ‘picture’ literally because, as Wittgenstein correctly emphasizes, philosophers of different persuasions are hypnotized by different pictures. Literally pictures, little diagrams that they draw in the margins of their manuscripts which may not even get into the heart of the text. But, you can read a philosopher’s work, and pretty soon you can illustrate it. I have always been very candid: you can illustrate what I say because I provide the illustrations.”
Lecture 1: Objects of Knowlege
What is involved in Knowing?
Types of Knowing
Basic Facts
Types of Existence
Thinkables and Meanings
Seeing
Seeing and Believing
Veridical and Mistaken Perception
Objects
Qualities: Types and Divisions
Summary
Lecture 2: Perception and Reality
Private Worlds
Phenomenalism
Conditional Private Experience
Theory of Appearing
Perception and Spontaneous Belief
Apprehension or Sensation
Recognition As
An Example: Pain
Sensation and Belief
Lecture 3: Facts and Representation
Occurent Beliefs
Experience As
Facts
Attributes
Second-order Attributes and Facts
Necessity
The A Priori and Necessity
Lecture 4: Rationalism and Empiricism
Rationalism
Causality and C-Entailment
Mild Rationalism and Induction
Concept Empiricism
Representation
Lecture 5: Meaning
The Domain of Meanings
Thinking and Verbal Behaviorism
Lecture 6: Knowledge and Representation
The Evident
Getting to The Indirectly Evident
Critical Cognitivism
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NATURALISM AND ONTOLOGY
I. In Praise of “Something”
II. The Quest for Properties or When is a Sort Not a Sort
III. The Importance of Being Dispensable
IV. Meaning and Ontology
V. After Meaning
Appendix: Correspondence with Michael Loux.
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PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: History of Philosophy
I. The Soul as Craftsman
II. Vlastos and “The Third Man” (with “A Rejoinder”)
III. Aristotle’s Metaphysics: An Interpretation
IV. Substance and Form in Aristotle
V. Raw Materials, Subjects and Substrata
VI. Meditations Liebnitziennes
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PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: Metaphysics and Epistemology
I. Physical Realism
II. The Intentional Realism of Everett Hall
III. Abstract Entities
IV. Classes as Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox
V. The Paradox of Analysis: A Neo-Fregean Approach
VI. Notes on Intentionality
VII. Theoretical Explanation
VIII. Scientific Realism of Irenic Instrumentalism
IX. The Identity Approach to the Mind-Body Problem
X. Science and Ethics
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PURE PRAGMATICS & POSSIBLE WORLDS: The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars
Edited, with an introductory essay by J. F. Sicha
The main sections of the editor’s introduction:
I. Opening Remarks
II. Some Fundamental Themes
A. Naturalism
B. “Knowledge About”
III. The Pure Theory of Empirically Meaningful Languages
A. Pure Syntax
B. Pure Semantics
C. Pure Pragmatics
IV. Possible Worlds
Sellars’ essays
Pure Pragmatics and Epistemology
Epistemology and the New Way of Words
Realism and the New Way of Words
Concepts as involving Laws and Inconceivable without Them
Language, Rules and Behavior
On the Logic of Complex Particulars
Quotation Marks, Sentences, and Propositions
A Semantical Solution of the Mind-Body Problem
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