Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy

Wilfrid Sellars made profound and lasting contributions to nearly every area of philosophy. The aim of this collection is to highlight the continuing importance of Sellarsâ work to contemporary debates. The contributors include several luminaries in Sellars scholarship as well as members of the new generation whose work demonstrates the lasting power of Sellarsâ ideas. Papers by OâShea and Koons develop Sellarsâ underexplored views concerning ethics practical reasoning and free will with an emphasis on his longstanding engagement with Kant. Sachs Hicks and Pereplyotchik relate Sellarsâ views of mental phenomena to current topics in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Fink deVries Price Macbeth Christias and Brandom grapple with traditional Sellarsian themes including meaning truth existence and objectivity. Brandhoff provides an original account of the evolution of Sellarsâ philosophy of language and his project of pure pragmatics. The volume concludes with an author-meets-critics section centered around Robert Brandomâs recent book From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars with original commentaries and replies. . Language: English