Wilfrid Sellars i dwa obrazy świata

Arthur Wilfrid Adams

Arthur Wilfrid Adams died on 9th December, 1974, aged 82 years. He was a Bristolian, the son of Avery Adams, who was for many years Secretary to Bristol Education Committee and a well known local artist. Wiilfrid was educated at Clifton College and then studied medicine lin Bristol and at 'the London Hospital qualifying M.B., BjS. (London) in 1916. After service with (the RAMC 'in the First Wor...

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

Note: This paper was first presented as the University of London Special Lectures on Philosophy for 1955-56, delivered on March 1, 8, and 15, 1956, under the title "The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind." Reproduced with the permission of the University of Minnesota Press from: Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," in Herbert Feigl an...

SELLARS AND PRETENSE ON TRuTh

La explicación de la verdad que Wilfrid Sellars ofrece en su artículo “Verdad y ‘correspondencia’”, nos presenta una aparente tensión interna entre dos aspectos supuestamente incompatibles con sus puntos de vista sobre la verdad. Para resolver plenamente esta tensión, es necesario tener en cuenta una explicación de la atribución de significado. Creemos que la explicación que Sellars ofrece, sob...

Sellars, Wilfrid (1971). Science, sense impressions and sensa: a reply to Cornman. Review of Metaphysics 24: 391-447. SCIENCE, SENSE IMPRESSIONS, AND SENSA: A REPLY TO CORNMAN

McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions

One of John McDowell’s central concerns is to understand the relation between mind and world, to understand intentionality. McDowell believes that ‘that there is no better way for us to approach an understanding of intentionality than by working toward understanding Kant’ (McDowell 1998: 432). McDowell also believes that this conviction is shared by Wilfrid Sellars and that ‘coming to terms wit...