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

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilfrid Sellars

Philosophy

Harvard University Press

Knowledge, Mind, and the Given : Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Including the Complete Text of Sellars's Essay

"Sellars' s argument in EPM is enormously rich, subtle, and compelling. It is also, for the uninitiated, extraordinarily dense. Willem deVries and Timm Triplett’s comprehensive commentary Knowledge, Mind, and the Given provides a much needed guide. Beginning with a general overview to introduce some main themes and difficulties, deVries and Triplett take the reader step by step through the sixteen parts of the essay, providing at each stage necessary background, illuminating connections, and insightful clarifications of the main lines of argument. . . . deVries and Triplett have written a fine introduction to Sellars’s most important work." --Danielle Macbeth, The Philosophical Review

Willem A. Devries

Timm Triplett

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

This volume represents the main papers delivered by both prominent and rising philosophers at the 1999 SOFIA conference in Mazatlan, Mexico. The volume contains twenty substantial papers spanning important issues of current interest including sexuality and consent, rights and scarcity, democracy and individualism, and the nature of law and the value of punishment.

Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds: The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars

Reference

Jeffrey Sicha

Words, Language & Grammar

Ridgeview Pub. Co

Kant And Pre-kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars

Kant And Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures By Wilfrid Sellars

Science, Perception and Reality

Science & Math

Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes

Based on lectures given to graduate students by Wilfrid Sellars.

Heil Hitler, Herr Lehrer! Kindheit in Deutschland 1933-1939.

History

World

Zeitgut Verlag GmbH

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