O'Shea J (2007) Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press). (original) (raw)

This pdf includes the Introduction, Chapter One, and Conclusion (Ch. 7), plus Notes and Sellars Bibliography. -CONTENTS of the volume: Introduction 1 1 The Philosophical Quest and the Clash of the Images 10 The quest for a stereoscopic fusion of the manifest and scientifi c images 10 The clash of the images and the status of the sensible qualities 14 Sensing, thinking, and willing: persons as complex physical systems? 17 2 Scientifi c Realism and the Scientifi c Image 23 Empiricist approaches to the interpretation of scientifi c theories 24 Sellars’ critique of empiricism and his defense of scientifi c realism 32 The ontological primacy of the scientifi c image 41 3 Meaning and Abstract Entities 48 Approaching thought through language: is meaning a relation? 49 Sellars’ alternative functional role conception of meaning 55 The problem of abstract entities: introducing Sellars’ nominalism 63 Abstract entities: problems and prospects for the metalinguistic account 69 4 Thought, Language, and the Myth of Genius Jones 77 Meaning and pattern-governed linguistic behavior 77 Bedrock uniformity and rule-following normativity in the space of meanings 83 Our Rylean ancestors and genius Jones’s theory of inner thoughts 86 Privileged access and other issues in Sellars’ account of thinking 97 5 Knowledge, Immediate Experience, and the Myth of the Given 106 The idea of the given and the case of sense-datum theories 107 Toward Sellars’ account of perception and appearance 118 Epistemic principles and the holistic structure of our knowledge 125 Genius Jones, Act Two: the intrinsic character of our sensory experiences 136 6 Truth, Picturing, and Ultimate Ontology 143 Truth as semantic assertibility and truth as correspondence 144 Picturing, linguistic representation, and reference 147 Truth, conceptual change, and the ideal scientifi c image 158 The ontology of sensory consciousness and absolute processes 163 7 A Synoptic Vision: Sellars’ Naturalism with a Normative Turn 176 The structure of Sellars’ normative ‘Copernican revolution’ 176 Intentions, volitions, and the moral point of view 178 Persons in the synoptic vision 185 Notes 191 Bibliography 228 Index 243