The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars's writings on topics to do with action, community, and obligation: published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence. Sellars's practical philosophy was absolutely central to his overarching philosophical project of situating persons as practically rational, norm-governed animals within the world as described by an ideal science. The Editors' Introduction offers an overview of Sellars's metaethics, detailing its key features and explaining how these features are supposed to solve outstanding metaethical problems that not only faced Sellars's contemporaries, but continue to create lively debate among contemporary theorists. And the editors give chapter summaries indicating the main lines of argument and showing where each piece fits into Sellars's overall picture.

The Metaphysics of Practice: Writings on Action, Community, and Obligation

Politics & Social Sciences

Sellars, Wilfrid

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Science and Metaphysics contains Sellars' John Locke Lectures. Besides considerable attention to doctrines of Kant's, Sellars presents "in systematic form the views I have developed and modified in paper after paper over the past twenty years."

Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes

Humanities Pr

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. He was, Richard Rorty writes, "as original a mind as C. S. Peirce, and it has taken almost as long for the importance of his ideas to be appreciated." This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.
The volume presents the most readable of Sellars's essays in a sequence that illuminates what Robert Brandom calls the "inferentialist" conception of meaning at the heart of his work. This conception, laid out in the early essays, is deployed in various epistemological contexts throughout the book so that, upon arriving at the concluding papers on Kant, the reader has been given a tour d'horizon not only of the central topics of philosophy of mind and language, but of much of the history of philosophy as well--and, with this, a sense of what a shifting of analytic philosophy from its Humean into its Kantian stage would entail.

In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars

Harvard University Press

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology." 
 With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Orig Pub in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol 1, Ed. Herbert Feigl, 1956)

Rorty, Richard

Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method Series)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Science, Perception and Reality

Travel

Travel Writing

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy contains Wilfrid Sellars' essays on Plato, Aristotle and Leibniz.

Ridgeview Publishing Company

This book is a collection of essays by the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. These essays are from the late 1950s and early 1960s and concern topics in metaphysics and epistemology.

Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics and Epistemology

This book is a revised version of Sellars' John Dewey Lectures for 1974. It is an "attempt to bring together in reasonably systematic form certain views on ontology, semantics and the philosophy of mind" that he had developed over the "previous thirty years."

Naturalism and Ontology

Ridgeview Pub. Co

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The Metaphysics of Practice: Writings on Action, Community, and Obligation

Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes

In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Orig Pub in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol 1, Ed. Herbert Feigl, 1956)

Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method Series)

Science, Perception and Reality

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy

Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics and Epistemology

Naturalism and Ontology

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy