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...

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...

In his graduate-seminar lectures on Kant—published as Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes (Sellars 2002)—Wilfrid Sellars argues that because Hume cannot distinguish between a vivacious idea and an idea of something vivacious he cannot account for the human ability to represent temporally complex states of affairs. The first section of this paper aims to show that this argument is not properly aimed at ...

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In the opening pages of his 1966 Locke Lectures, Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes, Wilfrid Sellars alludes to what he takes to be the ambiguity or “Janus-faced” character of Kant’s notion of “intuition” as developed in the Critique of Pure Reason (Sellars, 1966, p. 2). Appealing first to the formal distinction between intuitions and concepts, he notes that in Kant’s taxonom...

Abstract This paper reconstructs and defends a Sellarsian approach to “sensation” that allows us avoid mythological conceptions of it. Part I isolates Sellars’s argument for “sensation,” situating his adverbial interpretation the notion within broader theory perception. II positions views vis-à-vis current conversations on adverbalism. In particular, it focuses Many Property Problem, which is t...

At B19, Kant summarizes the general problem of pure reason in synthetic a priori judgments. The vicissitudes that have affected last century’s philosophy are, this sense, confirmation its significance: knowledge has indeed crossed all major philosophical currents twentieth century, being treated wide variety ways by phenomenologists, logical empiricists, and pragmatists. One most original treat...