Table of Contents
Dedication
Title page
Copyright page
Key Contemporary Thinkers
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
1: The Philosophical Quest and the Clash of the Images
The quest for a stereoscopic fusion of the manifest and scientific images
The clash of the images and the status of the sensible qualities
Sensing, thinking, and willing: persons as complex physical systems?
Notes
2: Scientific Realism and the Scientific Image
Empiricist approaches to the interpretation of scientific theories
Sellars' critique of empiricism and his defense of scientific realism
The ontological primacy of the scientific image
Notes
3: Meaning and Abstract Entities
Approaching thought through language: is meaning a relation?
Sellars' alternative functional role conception of meaning
The problem of abstract entities: introducing Sellars' nominalism
Abstract entities: problems and prospects for the metalinguistic account
Notes
4: Thought, Language, and the Myth of Genius Jones
Meaning and pattern-governed linguistic behavior
Bedrock uniformity and rule-following normativity in the space of meanings
Our Rylean ancestors and genius Jones's theory of inner thoughts
Privileged access and other issues in Sellars' account of thinking
Notes
5: Knowledge, Immediate Experience, and the Myth of the Given
The idea of the given and the case of sense-datum theories
Toward Sellars' account of perception and appearance
Epistemic principles and the holistic structure of our knowledge
Genius Jones, Act Two: the intrinsic character of our sensory experiences
Notes
6: Truth, Picturing, and Ultimate Ontology
Truth as semantic assertibility and truth as correspondence
Picturing, linguistic representation, and reference
Truth, conceptual change, and the ideal scientific image
The ontology of sensory consciousness and absolute processes
Notes
7: A Synoptic Vision: Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn
The structure of Sellars' normative ‘Copernican revolution’
Intentions, volitions, and the moral point of view
Persons in the synoptic vision
Notes
Bibliography
Works by Wilfrid Sellars
Works by other authors
Index
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