Description
This edited volume systematically addresses the connection between Wilfrid Sellars and the history of modern philosophy, exploring both the content and method of this relationship. It intends both to analyze Sellars’ position in relation to singular thinkers of the modern tradition, and to inquire into Sellars’ understanding of philosophy as a field in reflective and constructive conversation with its past. The chapters in Part I cover Sellars’ interpretation and use of Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel. Part II features essays on his relationship with Peirce, Frege, Carnap, Wittgenstein, American pragmatism, behaviorism, and American realism, particularly his father, Roy Wood. Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy features original contributions by many of the most renowned Sellars scholars throughout the world. It offers an exhaustive survey of Sellars’ views on the historical antecedents and meta-philosophical aspects of his thought.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Lingua Franca of Thought: Willfrid Sellars and the History of Philosophy
Part I: Sellars and Modern Philosophy
1. Sellars on Descartes
Christian Barth
2. The Lingua franca of Nominalism: Sellars on Leibniz
Antonio M. Nunziante
3. Sellars and Hume on the Ontological Status of Theoretical-Explanatory Entities
David Landy
4. Sellars’ Interpretive Variations on Kant’s Transcendental Idealist Themes
James R. O’Shea
5. Hegel After Sellars: Conceptual Connections
Luca Corti
Part II: Sellars and the Beginning of the Contemporary Age
6. Peirce and Sellars on Non-Conceptual Content
Catherine Legg
7. Sellars and Frege on Concepts and Laws
Danielle Macbeth
8. ‘We pragmatists mourn Sellars as a Lost Leader’: Sellars’ Pragmatist Distinction Between Signifying and Picturing
Carl Sachs
9. The Varieties and Origins of Wilfrid Sellars’ Behaviorism
Peter Olen
10. Sellars and Carnap: Science and/or Metaphysics
Carlo Gabbani
11. Sellars and Wittgenstein, Early and Late
Guido Bonino and Paolo Tripodi
12. Wilfrid Sellars and Roy Wood Sellars: Theoretical Continuities and Methodological Divergences
Fabio Gironi
Conclusions
13. Thinking with Sellars and Beyond Sellars: On the Relations Between Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
