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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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32Hegel’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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16Empiricism, 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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88Does observational knowledge require metaknowledge? A dialogue on SellarsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (1). 2007.In the following dialogue between TT - a foundationalist - and WdeV - a Sellarsian, we offer our differing assessments of the principle for observational knowledge proposed in Wilfrid Sellars's 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind'. Sellars writes: 'For a Konstatierung "This is green" to "express observational knowledge", not only must it be a symptom or sign of the presence of a green object in standard conditions, but the perceiver must know that tokens of "This is green" are symptoms of the…Read more
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31The 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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93Hegel on reference and knowledgeJournal of the History of Philosophy 26 (2): 297-307. 1988.A refutation of claims by, e.g., Hamlyn or Soll, that Hegel denies our ability to refer to or knowledge individual objects.
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106Sellars, Animals, and ThoughtProblems From Sellarsan examination of Wilfrid Sellars position of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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127Just What is the Relation between the Manifest and the Scientific Images?International Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (1): 112-128. 2016.Robert B. Brandom’s From Empiricism to Expressivism ranges widely over fundamental issues in metaphysics, with occasional forays into epistemology as well. The centerpiece is what Brandom calls ‘the Kant-Sellars thesis about modality’. This is ‘[t]he claim that in being able to use ordinary empirical descriptive vocabulary, one already knows how to do everything that one needs to know how to do, in principle, to use alethic modal vocabulary – in particular subjunctive conditionals’. Despite clai…Read more
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69Burgeoning skepticismErkenntnis 33 (2): 141-164. 1990.This paper shows that the resources mobilized by recent arguments against individualism in the philosophy of mind also suffice to construct a good argument against a Humean-style skepticism about our knowledge of extra-mental reality. The argument constructed, however, will not suffice to lay to rest the attacks of a truly global skeptic who rejects the idea that we usually know what our occurrent mental states are.
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155Wilfrid SellarsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2011.Overview of Wilfrid Sellars's philosophy.
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148Sellars vs. McDowell on the Structure of Sensory ConsciousnessDiametros 27 47-63. 2011.I argue that John McDowell’s attempt to refute Wilfrid Sellars’s two-component analysis of perceptual experience and substitute for it a conception according to which perceptual experience is the “conceptual shaping of sensory consciousness” fails. McDowell does not recognize the subtle dialectic in Sellars’s thought between transcendental and empirical considerations in favor of a substantive conception of sense impressions, and McDowell’s own proposal seems to empty the notion of sensory consc…Read more
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42Review of Jay F. Rosenberg, Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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22Hegel’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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63Is Sellars's Rylean hypothesis plausible? A dialogueIn Michael P. Wolf & Mark Norris Lance (eds.), Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Rodopi. pp. 85-114. 2006.A dialogue between someone who finds Sellars's Rylean myth in "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" quite implausible and another who defends it.
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120Wilfrid SellarsMcgill-Queen's University Press. 2005.Wilfrid Sellars has been called "the most profound and systematic epistemological thinker of the twentieth century". He was in many respects ahead of his time, and many of his innovations have become widely acknowledged, for example, his attack on the "myth of the given", his functionalist treatment of intentional states, his proposal that psychological concepts are like theoretical concepts, and his suggestion that attributions of knowledge locate the knower "in the logical space of reasons". H…Read more
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534Hegelian Spirits in Sellarsian BottlesPhilosophical Studies 1-12. 2016.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 …Read more
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