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From empiricism to expressivism : Brandom reads Sellars / Robert B. Brandom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 289 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674735569
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B945 .F766 2015
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Contents:
Categories and noumena : two Kantian axes of Sellars's thought -- The centrality of Sellars's two-ply account of observation to the arguments of empiricism and the philosophy of mind -- Pragmatism, inferentialism, and modality in Sellars's arguments against empiricism -- Modality and normativity : from Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars -- Modal expressivism and modal realism : together again -- Sortals, identity, and modality : the metaphysical significance of the Modal Kant-Sellars thesis -- Sellars's metalinguistic expressivist nominalism.
Subject: Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading critics of empiricism--a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Robert Brandom clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase and why such a move might be of crucial importance today.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Categories and noumena : two Kantian axes of Sellars's thought -- The centrality of Sellars's two-ply account of observation to the arguments of empiricism and the philosophy of mind -- Pragmatism, inferentialism, and modality in Sellars's arguments against empiricism -- Modality and normativity : from Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars -- Modal expressivism and modal realism : together again -- Sortals, identity, and modality : the metaphysical significance of the Modal Kant-Sellars thesis -- Sellars's metalinguistic expressivist nominalism.

Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading critics of empiricism--a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Robert Brandom clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase and why such a move might be of crucial importance today.

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