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Action, Knowledge and Reality: Studies in Honor of Wilfrid Sellars

Hector-Neri Castañeda

Critica 9 (27):89-100 (1977)

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Sellars and the "myth of the given".William P. Alston - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (1):69-86.details Sellars is well known for his critique of the “myth of the given” in his “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”. That text does not make it unambiguous just how he understands the “myth”. Here I take it that whatever else may be involved, his critique is incompatible with the view that there is a nonconceptual mode of “presentation” or “givenness” of particulars that is the heart of sense perception and what is most distinctive of perception as a type of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 32 citations
(1 other version)Ontology and the Completeness of Sellars’s Two Images.Willem A. de Vries - 2012 - Humana Mente 5 (21).details 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 (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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