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6On "Sophist" 255B-EHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 5 (4): 385-394. 1988.AT Sophist 255b7-e the Eleatic Stranger gives two arguments, one to show that being and identity are not the same, and one to show that being and otherness are not the same. Scholars have not paid them particularly close attention, but it seems generally agreed that the two arguments are quite different. In this paper I shall offer an interpretation which shows that the two arguments, though superficially quite different, are intrinsically and importantly related. Specifically, in the firs…Read more
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12This 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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4McDowell, 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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10Hegel’s Concept of Action, by Michael Quante (review)The Owl of Minerva 38 (1-2): 190-194. 2006.
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18Hegel’s Theory of Mental Activity: An Introduction to Theoretical Spirit.Philosophical Review 101 (2): 399. 1992.
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17Brandom 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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31Brandom 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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30Hegel 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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87From 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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21Michael 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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14Experience 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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22Hegelian 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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12Empiricism, 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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11McDowell, 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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20Empiricism, 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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8In 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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58Brandom'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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97Ontology and the Completeness of Sellars’s Two ImagesHumana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 1-18. 2012.Sellars claims completeness for both the “manifest” and the “scientific images” in a way that tempts one to assume that they are independent of each other, while, in fact, they must share at least one common element: the language of individual and community intentions. I argue that this significantly muddies the waters concerning his claim of ontological primacy for the scientific image, though not in favor of the ontological primacy of the manifest image. The lesson I draw is that we need to r…Read more
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14Who sees with equal eye,... Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd?Philosophical Studies 71 (2): 191-200. 1993.A comment the paper by Brian McLaughlin in the same volume, this paper raises questions about whether the classicism/connectionism debate is really well-formed.
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86Sellars' "Rylean myth"In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.A summary of the "Rylean myth" (aka "the myth of Jones") from Wilfrid Sellars' classic article "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind." He uses this "myth" to motivate the idea that our concepts of mental states are like theoretical concepts, developed to fulfill an explanatory role, and not at all somehow 'given' to us by direct acquaintance with instances of mental states.
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5Reality, 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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23Does 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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11Hegel 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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5The 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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7Sellars, Animals, and ThoughtProblems From Sellarsan examination of Wilfrid Sellars position of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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17Just 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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