In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars by Kevin Scharp
In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars by Kevin Scharp
English | Apr. 30, 2007 | ISBN: 0674024982 | 519 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | Apr. 30, 2007 | ISBN: 0674024982 | 519 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
The volume presents the most readable of Sellars's essays in a sequence that illuminates what Robert Brandom calls the "inferentialist" conception of meaning at the heart of his work. This conception, laid out in the early essays, is deployed in various epistemological contexts throughout the book so that, upon arriving at the concluding papers on Kant, the reader has been given a tour d'horizon not only of the central topics of philosophy of mind and language, but of much of the history of philosophy as well–and, with this, a sense of what a shifting of analytic philosophy from its Humean into its Kantian stage would entail.