Brandom, Robert,

From empiricism to expressivism : Brandom reads Sellars / Robert B. Brandom. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (ix, 289 pages) : illustrations

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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Sellars, Wilfrid


Empiricism.
Pragmatism.
Expressivism (Ethics)
Empiricism
Expressivism (Ethics)
History of Philosophy
Philosophy, other
Philosophy
Pragmatism
Philosophie


Electronic Books.

B945 / .F766 2015