Wilfrid Sellars and the task of philosophy

Hicks, Michael R.

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“…8 In fact, Sellars shares a number of stances with Ryle's metaphilosophical approach-as well as his resulting treatment of "sensation" (Ryle,6 Many of the Sellarsian views I discuss have already been investigated by scholars. See, for instance, Levine (2016), Gupta (2012), DeVries (2005, Hicks (2020), O'Shea (2007, Rosenberg ( , 2007, Richardson and Muilenburg (1982). I will build on this existing analysis in my argument, which has a distinct exegetical component.…”

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“…I will not dwell on it here. It is worth noting, however, that current scholarship on Sellars's metaphilosophy tends to overlook the therapeutic aspects of his reflections and instead focuses on the distinction between the two images in his philosophy (Dach, 2018) or the status of philosophical proposition in his thought (Christias, 2014;Hicks, 2020). 8 Tanney (2013).…”

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“…On the idea of telling a "myth" inSellars' account, cf. Kukla (2000) andHicks (2020).15 On this point cf.O'Shea (2007, p. 88ff.…”

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Demystifying the myth of sensation: Wilfrid Sellars’ adverbialism reconsidered

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This paper reconstructs and defends a Sellarsian approach to “sensation” that allows us to avoid mythological conceptions of it. Part I reconstructs and isolates Sellars’s argument for “sensation,” situating his adverbial interpretation of the notion within his broader theory of perception. Part II positions Sellars’s views vis-à-vis current conversations on adverbalism. In particular, it focuses on the Many Property Problem, which is traditionally considered the main obstacle to adverbialism. After reconstructing Sellars’s response to this problem, I demonstrate that his position is compatible with some current strategies to solving it and can be developed along similar lines. Finally, part III addresses how a Sellarsian adverbial approach productively accounts for the phenomenal properties of experience often understood to fall under the notion of “sensation”. The paper therefore shows how isolating Sellars’s argument can yield a non-problematic conception of sensation. Indeed, the argument on which I focus offers a form of direct realism compatible with recent forms of “new adverbialism”. Although my view remains Sellarsian, to defend it I maintain that some Sellarsian claims about sensation should be resisted as not logically entailed by his argument.

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Demystifying the myth of sensation: Wilfrid Sellars’ adverbialism reconsidered

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The Anthropocene conjecture and Wilfrid Sellars’ scientific image: (another) prolegomenon to rethinking the human?

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Sellars, practical reality, and practical truth

Dach

2023

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Wilfrid Sellars is usually read as claiming that only the unobservable, theoretical objects which science would postulate at the ideal end of inquiry are real. Against this, Willem deVries has suggested that we can develop a notion of practical reality in the context of Sellars's philosophy which would pertain primarily to commonsense objects. I use deVries's suggestion as a foil to clarify Sellars's own commitments about the practical. I show that the notion of practical reality is not necessary to secure the ultimate legitimacy of practical concepts. We can retreat to the less committed notion of practical truth. I argue that the notion of practical truth may not be sufficient to ensure that ultimately legitimate practical concepts are commonsense concepts in Sellars's framework. Nevertheless, deVries's suggestion highlights that Sellars's vision of an ultimate conceptual system may have been richer than is often thought.

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Wilfrid Sellars and the task of philosophy

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Demystifying the myth of sensation: Wilfrid Sellars’ adverbialism reconsidered

Demystifying the myth of sensation: Wilfrid Sellars’ adverbialism reconsidered

The Anthropocene conjecture and Wilfrid Sellars’ scientific image: (another) prolegomenon to rethinking the human?

Sellars, practical reality, and practical truth

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