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43All in the FamilyIn Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Millikan and Her Critics, Wiley. 2012.This article considers Ruth Millikan's relationship to Robert Brandom and most especially their common influence, Wilfrid Sellars.
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40Review of Jay F. Rosenberg, Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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37Wilfrid Sellars (review)Review of Metaphysics 61 (4): 854-855. 2008.A brief "book note" on James O'Shea's "Wilfrid Sellars"
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32Review: McDowell, The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays and Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (8). 2009.
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32This is a careful explication of and commentary on Wilfrid Sellars's classic essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" [EPM]. It is appropriate for upper-level undergraduates and beyond. The full text of EPM is included in the volume.
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28The Metaphysics of Mind (review)Idealistic Studies 22 (3): 236-238. 1992.The Metaphysics of Mind is metaphysics in the logical-reconstruction-of-language mode. Tye claims the assertions of ordinary folk psychology are frequently true and attacks the idea that there are any mental events, but he is not, on the whole, concerned with what kinds of theories are best able to handle the empirical evidence we have. Rather, Tye’s central focus is an argument that the ontological commitments of psychological discourse in general are very minimal: just “persons and other senti…Read more
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28Folk psychology, theories, and the Sellarsian rootsIn Michael P. Wolf (ed.), Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Rodopi. pp. 53-84. 2006.Wilfrid Sellars has often be proclaimed the father of the "theory theory" of psychological knowledge. This article exposes what is true and and what is false in this claim.
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22Michael Wolff, Das Körper-Seele-Problem: Kommentar zu Hegel, Enzyklopädie , §389 , pp. 211. ISBN 3-465-02509-1 (review)Hegel Bulletin 19 (1-2): 109-112. 1998.
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22Hegel and SkepticismPhilosophical Review 101 (2): 401. 1992.This is a review of Forster's book.
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22Hegel’s Theory of Mental Activity: An Introduction to Theoretical Spirit.Philosophical Review 101 (2): 399. 1992.
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20Brandom and A Spirit of Trust : A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology, by Robert B. Brandom, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2019, xiv + 836 pp., $46.50 (hbk), ISBN 9780674976818 (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (2): 236-250. 2021.For years, Robert B. Brandom has been working on a book on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Earlier versions of its chapters were available for scrutiny at Brandom’s website. But the book itself is...
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19Kant, Rosenberg, and the Mirror of PhilosophyIn James O'Shea & Eric Rubenstein (eds.), Self, Language, and World: Problems from Kant, Sellars, and Rosenberg, Ridgeview. 2010.The "Transcendental Deduction" in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the great mirrors of philosophy. By that I mean that there seems to be no steady and unchanging image to be found in that text; each philosopher who approaches it finds in it a reflection of his or her own deepest concerns. Jay Rosenberg's new book, "Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason" is no exception. Rosenberg lays out a different approach to the central argument of the first Cri…Read more
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18Meaning and Interpretation in HistoryHistory and Theory 22 (3): 253-263. 1983.The translationist theory of meaning can provide a plausible understanding of the reenactment methodology of history, although there are disanalogies. It takes as primitive our ability to recognize synonymy relations between linguistic episodes, either within the same language or other languages. In translating a complex linguistic object translators must possess an incredibly large stock of background knowledge about a culture and be sensitive and resourceful speakers of the language into which…Read more
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15Hegel’s Dialectic and its Criticism (review)Philosophical Review 93 (3): 450. 1984.a book review of Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism by Michael Rosen
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14Brandom's two-ply errorIn Willem A. DeVries (ed.), Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, Oxford University Press. 2009.Robert Brandom makes several mistakes in his discussion of Sellars's "Two-Ply" account of observation. Brandom does not recognize the difference in "level" between observation reports concerning physical objects and 'looks'-statements. He also denies that 'looks'-statements are reports or even make claims. They then demonstrate a more correct reading of Sellars on 'looks'-statements.
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10Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2009.The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars's accomplishment, they engage with his treatment of crucial issues in metaphysics and epistemology. The topics include the standing of empiricism, Sellars's complex treatment of perception, his dissatisfaction with both f…Read more
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8Sense-certainty and the 'this-such'In Dean Moyar & Michael Quante (eds.), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2008.This article shows how Hegel's 'Sense-Certainty' chapter fills in a gap in Kant's and Sellars's critique of empiricism by supplying an argument that even indexical reference presupposes and is mediated by a larger conceptual framework.
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2Sellars' “Rylean Myth”In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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1McDowell, Sellars, and Sense ImpressionsIn Jakob Lindgaard (ed.), John McDowell, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Quine, the Dogmas, and Sellars The Transcendental Argument for Sense Impressions Are Sense Impressions Casually Idle? A Sideways‐On View from Nowhere Sensation and the Phenomenology of Perception Concluding Remarks Notes References.
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1Getting beyond idealismsIn Willem A. DeVries (ed.), Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, Oxford University Press. 2009.This paper investigates Sellars's complex attitude towards idealism. It distinguishes between the epistemologically-based arguments that led many empiricists to idealism and a different set of more purely metaphysical arguments that came to dominate in German Idealism. Sellars resolutely rejects all of the epistemological arguments for idealism, but shows much greater sympathy with the metaphysical arguments. It is then argued that Sellars introduced his notion of picturing to avoid falling i…Read more
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Reality, Knowledge, and the Good Life: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (edited book)St. Martin's Press. 1991.An historical introduction to philosophy.
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Sellars and the Myth of the givenIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.A summary of Sellars' argument that the Given is a myth--there is no such thing as a given in our knowledge.
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