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Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’s Pittsburgh school of thought and Husserlian phenomenology. Beginning with an introduction to contemporary philosophical debates about the mind and pragmatism, the essays examine and clarify the discursive divide between analytic and Continental philosophy.
Trade Review“This is the first book to bring Sellars and Husserlian phenomenology into dialogue, exploring the many lines of intersection between them, in an impressively wide range of issues. By highlighting the complexity and richness of the relations between Sellars’s thought and phenomenology, the book persuasively shows how an encounter between them can be beneficial to both parties and a source of novel philosophical insight.” -- Dionysis Christias, University of Athens
“Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology … explores what Sellars does with phenomenology and how better attention to phenomenology throws much light on Sellars. In the twenty-first century the gap between analytic and Continental philosophy has been slowly closing. This volume makes a much-needed contribution to that project.” -- Carl Sachs, Marymount University
“Finally, the relationship between Sellars and phenomenology receives the treatment it deserves. This thoughtful collection of papers explores unprecedented territories as it locates in Sellars’ own work traces of his complex and longstanding relation with phenomenology. The book is indispensable for anyone interested in the connection between phenomenology and analytic philosophy of Kantian and Neo-Kantian inspiration.” -- Maxime Doyon, Université de Montréal
Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction—DANIELE DE SANTIS AND DANILO MANCA
1 Husserl’s Legacy in Sellars’s Philosophical Strategy—ANTONIO M. NUNZIANTE
2 Sellars and Husserl on the Manifest World—WALTER HOPP
3 Husserl’s Lifeworld and Sellars’s Stereoscopic Vision of the World—DANILO MANCA
4 Beyond the Manifest Image: The Myth of the Given across Determination and Disposition—ROBERTA LANFREDINI
5 The Status of Phenomenological Reflection: A Reassessment Inspired by Wilfrid Sellars’s Philosophy—KARL MERTENS
6 The Space of Motivations, Experience, and the Categorial Given—JACOB RUMP
7 Is Imagination a “Necessary Ingredient of Perception”? Sellars’s and Husserl’s Variations on a Kantian Theme—MICHELA SUMMA
8 The Chisholm-Sellars Correspondence on Intentionality—WOLFGANG HUEMER
9 Phenomenological Variations on Sellars’s “Particulars”—DANIELE DE SANTIS
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