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38This 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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6Sellars and the Myth of the givenIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.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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6Sellars' “Rylean Myth”In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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3McDowell, Sellars, and Sense ImpressionsIn Jakob Lindgaard (ed.), John McDowell, Blackwell. 2008-03-17.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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93Hegel’s Concept of Action, by Michael Quante (review)The Owl of Minerva 38 (1-2): 190-194. 2006.
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33Hegel’s Theory of Mental Activity: An Introduction to Theoretical Spirit.Philosophical Review 101 (2): 399. 1992.
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28Brandom 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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67Brandom and A Spirit of TrustInternational 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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91Hegel and Sellars on the Unity of ThingsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (3): 363-378. 2019.ABSTRACTI have claimed previously that Hegel and Sellars are both, in the end, monistic visionaries, though with radically different visions of the grand unity of things. In this paper I explain an...
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112From Idealism to PragmatismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 10 (2). 2018.Pragmatism has ties to Idealism; it has even been accused of being a form of idealism. I tell a story about the changing nature of idealism that makes sense of its relationship to pragmatism without threatening to collapse the two. My story is a genealogy that begins well before pragmatism shows up. Pragmatism has very little in common with the subjective idealism of Berkeley or the problematic idealism of Descartes; the differences between idealism and pragmatism get blurred only because ideali…Read more
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42Michael 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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82Experience and the swamp creaturePhilosophical Studies 82 (1): 55-80. 1996.Individualism is the doctrine that the state of one's mind is entirely dependent on the state of one's body (or some proper part thereof (e.g., the central nervous system)). It has come under attack from Burge, Baker, and others. This paper seeks to cut off one ore attempt to defend individualism, namely, the claim that experience, at least, in individualistic.
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57Hegelian Spirits in Sellarsian bottlesPhilosophical Studies 174 (7): 1643-1654. 2017.Though Wilfrid Sellars portrayed himself as a latter-day Kantian, I argue here that he was at least as much a Hegelian. Several themes Sellars shares with Hegel are investigated: the sociality and normativity of the intentional, categorial change, the rejection of the given, and especially their denial of an unknowable thing-in-itself. They are also united by an emphasis on the unity of things—the belief that things do “hang together.” Hegel’s unity is idealist; Sellars’ is physicalist; the diff…Read more
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148Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.Leading philosophers from both sides of the Atlantic present essays on Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. They discuss empiricism, perception, epistemology, realism, and normativity, showing how vibrant Sellarsian philosophy remains in the 21st century.
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147McDowell, Sellars, and Sense ImpressionsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 14 (2): 182-201. 2006.this essay argues that John McDowell's argument that sensations are a useless 'fifth wheel' in Wilfrid Sellars' philosophy of experience fails.
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17Empiricism, 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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431Sellars, Realism, and Kantian ThinkingNormative Functionalism and the Pittsburgh School. 2012.This essay is a response to Patrick Reider’s essay “Sellars on Perception, Science and Realism: A Critical Response.” Reider is correct that Sellars’s realism is in tension with his generally Kantian approach to issues of knowledge and mind, but I do not think Reider’s analysis correctly locates the sources of that tension or how Sellars himself hoped to be able to resolve it. Reider’s own account of idealism and the reasons supporting it are rooted in the epistemological tradition that informed…Read more
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51The Dialectic of TeleologyPhilosophical Topics 19 (2): 51-70. 1991.The is a reading of Hegel's chapter on teleology in the Science of Logic. It argues that inadequacies in the intentional model of teleology that dominated both pre-Kantian and Kantian thought about teleology force us to recognize a much more Aristotelian conception of natural teleology that must be presupposed to make sense of the teleology of intentions.
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36Review: 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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2236Hegel's theory of mental activity: an introduction to theoretical spiritCornell University Press. 1988.An interpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit showing its continued relevance to contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind.
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48All in the FamilyIn Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Millikan and her critics, Wiley. 2013.This article considers Ruth Millikan's relationship to Robert Brandom and most especially their common influence, Wilfrid Sellars.
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47Wilfrid 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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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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47Sellars and the myth of the givenIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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123Naturalism, the Autonomy of Reason, and PicturesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 18 (3): 395-413. 2010.Sellars was committed to the irreducibility of the semantic, the intentional, and the normative. Nevertheless, he was also committed to naturalism, which is prima facie at odds with his other theses. This paper argues that Sellars maintained his naturalism by being linguistically pluralistic but ontologically monistic . There are irreducibly distinct forms of discourse, because there is an array of distinguishable functions that language and thought perform, but we are not ontologically committe…Read more
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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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130The Dialectic of TeleologyPhilosophical Topics 19 (2): 51-70. 1991.An analysis of Hegel's chapter on teleology in the Science of Logic. Hegel argues that the 'intentional model' of teleology assumed by Kant actually presupposes a natural or organic teleology more like along Aristotelian lines.
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47Review of Paul Redding, Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (4). 2008.
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58In the Space of Reasons (review)Review of Metaphysics 61 (4): 860-862. 2008.a "book note" on this collection of selected essays by Wilfrid Sellars
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