Bøger af Wilfrid Sellars

Eleven essays by Wilfrid Sellars, including "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" and "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man"

Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The Metaphysics of Practice brings together his writings on practical philosophy-published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence-with an editorial introduction explaining how the pieces fit into Sellars's philosophy as a whole.

This book is a collection of essays by the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. These essays are from the late 1950s and early 1960s and concern topics in metaphysics and epistemology.

This book is a revised version of Sellars' John Dewey Lectures for 1974. It is an "attempt to bring together in reasonably systematic form certain views on ontology, semantics and the philosophy of mind" that he had developed over the "previous thirty years."

Science and Metaphysics contains Sellars' John Locke Lectures. Besides considerable attention to doctrines of Kant's, Sellars presents "in systematic form the views I have developed and modified in paper after paper over the past twenty years."

Never theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur veying such identical objects.

Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. This publication makes comprehensible a difficult but important figure in this movement.