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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Wilfrid Sellars"”.
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Pragmatic Epistemology, Community, and the Problem of Solipsism
… such as Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and Wilfrid Sellars and contemporary descendents of pragmatism like Wilfrid Sellars embraced the notion of community and developed the crucial role it plays in evaluating knowledge claims. The aim of this thesis is two-fold. I examine critically the …
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FROM ‘WE REASONERS’ TO ‘WE SUFFERERS’: COMMUNITY AND LOYALTY FROM ROYCE, THROUGH SELLARS, TO RORTY
Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty form a loose intellectual tradition in their various presentations of moral community. Their influence on one another has been noted but not yet fully explored. This dissertation remedies that lack. It shows the dependence in addressing this topic of …
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"An essay concerning subjectivity and scientific realism: Some fancies on Sellarsian themes and onto-politics"
… develop this framework, I critique the work of Wilfrid Sellars. Sellars is one of the few analytic philosophers of science who directly addresses the connections between science and subjectivity. What makes Sellars particularly interesting is the way he sought to preserve a strong conception of …
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Reconstructing Science and Re-Imagining Our Conscious Mind: Putting Neuropragmatism to Work
… and neopragmatic project of reconciling what Wilfrid Sellars called the scientific and manifest images of humanity. In promoting reconstruction as opposed to reconciliation, the tension in both Dennett and much contemporary neurophilosophy is simply evaded. Moreover, the conflict between the …
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How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency
… Neo-pragmatists who preserve objectivity, like Wilfrid Sellars, opt for the latter. Second, neither camp effectively deploys its conception to provide an adequate account of the epistemic objectivity of our beliefs and assertions: the former camp falls prey to phenomenalism (and so, among other …
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Wahrnehmung, indexikalisches Denken und die Möglichkeit einer phänomenologischen Reflexion : Hector-Neri Castañedas Ontologie, Semantik und Wahrnehmungstheorie
… Begriffe von theoretischen abtrennt, und Wilfrid Sellars, weil er eine kategoriale Kluft zwischen nicht-begrifflichem und begrifflichem Bewusstsein annimmt. Schließlich extrapoliere ich, was für eine Grundposition die besten Voraussetzungen mitbringt, um die phänomenologische Refle-xion zu …