{"product_id":"wilfrid-sellars-9780745630038","title":"Wilfrid Sellars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and scientific images, have become standard philosophical terms. Often, however, recent uses of these terms do not reflect the richness or the true sense of Sellars original ideas. This book gets to the heart of Sellars philosophy and provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to his lifes work.  \u003cp\u003eThe book is structured around what Sellars himself regarded as the philosophers overarching task: to achieve a coherent vision of reality that will finally overcome the continuing clashes between the world as common sense takes it to be and the world as science reveals it to be. It provides a clear analysis of Sellars groundbreaking philo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I know that a review without any critical comments looks like an apology rather than a real review ... and to my embarrassment, there is little I can say by way of criticism about James O'Shea's book. The depth and colorfulness of the depiction of Sellars' philosophy as presented by O'Shea [is] remarkable.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eErkenntnis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not only does this book present a comprehensive picture of Sellars’s philosophical system in its breadth, its depth and subtlety, it does so with a freshness and lucidity that I have not seen before in commentaries on Sellars, including my own.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTom Vinci,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A pellucid introduction to the systematic thought of one of the deepest, most important, and least understood of twentieth-century philosophers.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Brandom\u003ci\u003e, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Jim O'Shea's compact book is an extremely valuable addition to the burgeoning literature on the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, presenting the essential elements of his dialectically intricate work in a relatively brief and eminently readable form. The book offers clear and accessible accounts of many of Sellars' most challenging ideas, embedded in a lucid expository structure that captures and effectively conveys the deeply systematic character of his philosophical vision. O'Shea insightfully traces the implications of Sellars' \"naturalism with a normative turn\" for the innovative conceptions of meaning, knowledge, representation, and truth in terms of which he undertook to reconcile our \"manifest image\" of ourselves as unitary subjects of sensation, thought, and action with the continually-developing \"scientific image\" of a world composed only of imperceptible impersonal entities and forces.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJay F. Rosenberg\u003ci\u003e, University of North Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Philosophical Quest and the Clash of the Images 10\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe quest for a stereoscopic fusion of the manifest and scientific images 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe clash of the images and the status of the sensible qualities 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSensing, thinking, and willing: persons as complex physical systems? 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Scientific Realism and the Scientific Image 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmpiricist approaches to the interpretation of scientific theories 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSellars’ critique of empiricism and his defense of scientific realism 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ontological primacy of the scientific image 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Meaning and Abstract Entities 48\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApproaching thought through language: is meaning a relation? 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSellars’ alternative functional role conception of meaning 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe problem of abstract entities: introducing Sellars’ nominalism 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbstract entities: problems and prospects for the metalinguistic account 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Thought, Language, and the Myth of Genius Jones 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeaning and pattern-governed linguistic behavior 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBedrock uniformity and rule-following normativity in the space of meanings 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur Rylean ancestors and genius Jones’s theory of inner thoughts 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivileged access and other issues in Sellers’ account of thinking 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Knowledge, Immediate Experience, and the Myth of the Given 106\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe idea of the given and the case of sense-datum theories 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward Sellers’ account of perception and appearance 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistemic principles and the holistic structure of our knowledge 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenius Jones, Act Two: the intrinsic character of our sensory experiences 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Truth, Picturing, and Ultimate Ontology 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruth as semantic assertibility and truth as correspondence 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePicturing, linguistic representation, and reference 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruth, conceptual change, and the ideal scientific image 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ontology of sensory consciousness and absolute processes 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 A Synoptic Vision: Sellers’ Naturalism with a Normative Turn 176\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe structure of Sellers’ normative ‘Copernican revolution’ 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntentions, volitions, and the moral point of view 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersons in the synoptic vision 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 243\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037643899223,"sku":"9780745630038","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745630038.jpg?v=1750936647","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wilfrid-sellars-9780745630038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}