Bringing together essays on Wilfrid Sellars’ distinction between the manifest and scientific image and his vision of philosophy’s role in overcoming their clash, this volume elucidates some of the most perplexing and important aspects of his philosophy.
An international team of leading and rising scholars provide a systematic treatment of Sellars’ metaphilosophy and its implications, drawing on the concepts presented in his seminal work Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man. Essays consider his view that the purpose of the distinction is to transform, rather than constrain, the practice of philosophy. Part I examines the relationship between the two images, their differences, and the (im)possibility of reconciling them; Part II explores Sellars’ distinction between the two images from a broader philosophical perspective and considers other aspects of his philosophy, including his often ambivalent relationship with other traditions such as logical atomism, logical empiricism and American pragmatism.
Attesting to his extensive legacy as a key figure in 20th-century analytic philosophy, this collection illuminates Sellars’ complex and intricate philosophy in new and engaging ways.
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Aims, Hopes, and Images: A Prologue to Sellars’s Metaphilosophy (László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete)
Part I. Clash of the Images
1- Philosophy and Its Images of Man (Danielle Macbeth)
2- Semantic Holism and the Clash of Images (Willem DeVries)
3- Normativity and the Scientific Image: A Sellarsian-Realist Perspective (Thodoris Dimitrakos and Stathis Psillos)
Part II. Metaphysics and the Sciences
4- Neo-Sellarsian Images of Philosophy and Science (Ted Parent)
5- Modal Structure and Sellars’s Metaphysical Methodology (Catherine Legg and Aiden Meyer)
6- Scientific Metaphysics and the Stereoscopic View of Sellars’s Two Images (Matthias Egg)
7- From the Myth of the Given to Human Freedom: A (Neo-)Kantian perspective (Michael Esfeld)
Part III. Historical Appropriations
8- A Kantian Defense of Sellarsian Picturing (David Landy)
9- On Sellars’s Logical Atomist Scientific Ontology (James O’Shea)
10- Sellars’s logical empiricism (Michael R. Hicks)
Part IV. Concepts and other Philosophical Tools
11- Is Perceptual Knowledge Framework-relative? McDowell contra Sellars (Dionysis Christias)
12- The Metaphor of the Space of Reasons (Stefanie Dach)
13- Hypergraphing the Space of Reason (Luz Christopher Seiberth)
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