The 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 ...(展开全部)

Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the philosophical agenda in the English-speaking world during the second half of the 20th century, and they remain an active focus of intense critical attention and lively discussion. Jay Rosenberg studied under Sellars in the early 1...(展开全部)

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the 20th century. He was, Richard Rorty writes, "as original a mind as C. S. Peirce, and it has taken almost as long for the importance of his ideas to be appreciated." This collection, co edited by Sellars' chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do mu...(展开全部)

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the 20th century. He was, Richard Rorty writes, "as original a mind as C. S. Peirce, and it has taken almost as long for the importance of his ideas to be appreciated." This collection, co edited by Sellars' chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do mu...(展开全部)

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In Causation with a Human Face, James Woodward integrates these lines of research and argues for an understanding of how each can inform the other: normative ideas can suggest interesting experiments, while descr...(展开全部)

Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This stance, that what matters are the correct principles, not one's own principles, has implications across ethics and ep...(展开全部)

Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This stance, that what matters are the correct principles, not one's own principles, has implications across ethics and ep...(展开全部)

This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about repres...(展开全部)

This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about repres...(展开全部)

作者介绍 威尔弗里德·斯托克·塞拉斯（Wilfrid Stalker Sellars，1912－1989） 美国哲学家，先后在密歇根大学、布法罗大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学学习，在爱荷华大学、明尼苏达大学、耶鲁大学和匹兹堡大学执教。一生著述百余，内容涉猎广泛、视野宽阔、原创深刻、系统连贯、极富启发。主要著作有《科学、感知与实在》《哲学视角》《科学与形而上学：康德主题变奏曲》《哲学与哲学史文集》《自然主义与存在论》《纯粹语用学与种种可能世界》《康德与前康德主题：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯讲座》《康德的先验形而上学：塞拉斯的卡西尔讲座及其他文集》《在理由的空间：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯文选》等。荣誉主要有洛克讲座（1966）、杜威讲座（1974）、卡卢斯讲座（1977）、卡西尔讲座（1979）等，尤其是伦敦大学讲座（1956），内容以“经验主义与心灵哲学”为题发表，被公...(展开全部)