Wilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid Sellars ( born May 20, 1912 in Michigan; † July 2, 1989 in Pittsburgh ) was an American philosopher who taught predominantly in Pittsburgh. Sellars made ​​contributions to philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics. He held the position of naturalism.

Life

Wilfrid Sellars Roy Wood Sellars was the son of ', also a well-known philosopher. After studying at the University of Michigan and Oxford University Sellars taught in Iowa, Minnesota and Yale before accepting in 1963 a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh. His main areas of work were the epistemology, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of perception. Here he closed primarily with the work of Willard Van Orman Quine, whose criticism of the classical empiricism he tightened. The dichotomy between perception and Justify, which is one of its central aspects, he gave this a radical rejection.

Among his most important pupils include Robert Brandom, John McDowell, John Haugeland and Jay Rosenberg. However, the most famous constructive Sellars reception by Richard Rorty, who in his book " Philosophy and the mirror of nature" repeatedly attacks on the idea of ​​" given" refers to Sellars, it expands and leads to radical consequences.

Works (selection)

  • Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds - The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars, [ pppw ], ed by Jeffrey F. Sicha, ( Ridgeview Publishing Co; Atascadero, CA; 1980).
  • Science, Perception and Reality, [ SPR ], ( Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, and The Humanities Press: New York, 1963).
  • Philosophical Perspectives, [ PP ], ( Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1967). Reprinted in two volumes, Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy and Philosophical Perspective: Metaphysics and Epistemology, ( Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA; 1977).
  • Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes. [ S & M], ( Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, and The Humanities Press, New York, 1968).
  • Essays in Philosophy and Its History, [ EPH ], (D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland, 1975).
  • Naturalism and Ontology, [N & O ], ( Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 1979). [An expanded version of the 1974 John Dewey Lectures ]
  • The Metaphysics of Epistemology, Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, ( Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA; 1989).
  • Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind [ EPM *], edited by Robert Brandom, (Harvard University Press, . Cambridge, MA, 1997).
  • Kant and Pre- Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, ( Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 2002).
  • Kant's Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars ' Cassirer Lecture Notes and Other Essays, edited by Jeffrey F. Sicha, ( Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 2002).

In German there is:

  • Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (1999).
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