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Published: 1st June 2000
ISBN: 9780872205505
Number Of Pages: 320
"This book serves three purposes, and it serves them very well. First, it patiently, accurately and comprehensively supplies the necessary information about the historical and contemporaneous ideas, views, problems and theories which constitute the conceptual setting for Sellars's theses and argumentation. Second, it provides a careful and lucid section-by-section interpretative explanation of Sellars's own principal views and claims and, crucially, undertakes to support them. And third, it offers its readers the beginnings of an engaged critical discussion of Sellars's critique of givenness and epistemological foundationalism. What is particularly impressive about this work is its marvelous clarity...a highly polished, accessible text..." -- Jay F Rosenberg, Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"This book serves three purposes, and it serves them very well. First, it patiently, accurately and comprehensively supplies the necessary information about the historical and contemporaneous ideas, views, problems and theories which constitute the conceptual setting for Sellars's theses and argumentation. Second, it provides a careful and lucid section-by-section interpretative explanation of Sellars's own principal views and claims and, crucially, undertakes to support them. And third, it offers its readers the beginnings of an engaged critical discussion of Sellars's critique of givenness and epistemological foundationalism. What is particularly impressive about this work is its marvelous clarity... a highly polished, accessible text..." -- Jay F Rosenberg, Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Preface: A Guide for the Perplexed | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| EPM Part I: An Ambiguity in Sense-Datum Theories | p. 1 |
| EPM Part II: Another Language? | p. 16 |
| EPM Part III: The Logic of 'Looks' | p. 19 |
| EPM Part IV: Explaining Looks | p. 34 |
| EPM Part V: Impressions and Ideas: A Logical Point | p. 46 |
| EPM Part VI: Impressions and Ideas: An Historical Point | p. 52 |
| EPM Part VII: The Logic of 'Means' | p. 59 |
| EPM Part VIII: Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation? | p. 67 |
| EPM Part IX: Science and Ordinary Usage | p. 108 |
| EPM Part X: Private Episodes: The Problem | p. 117 |
| EPM Part XI: Thoughts: The Classical View | p. 123 |
| EPM Part XII: Our Rylean Ancestors | p. 126 |
| EPM Part XIII: Theories and Models | p. 132 |
| EPM Part XIV: Methodological versus Philosophical Behaviorism | p. 136 |
| EPM Part XV: The Logic of Private Episodes: Thoughts | p. 141 |
| EPM Part XVI: The Logic of Private Episodes: Impressions | p. 158 |
| Glossary | p. 179 |
| References | p. 198 |
| Wilfrid Sellars | p. 205 |
| Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind | |
| Index | p. 277 |
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ISBN: 9780872205505
ISBN-10: 0872205509
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 1st June 2000
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 13.97
x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.36
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