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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
The Philosophical Quest and the Clash of the Images 10
The quest for a stereoscopic fusion of the manifest and scientific images 10
The clash of the images and the status of the sensible qualities 14
Sensing, thinking, and willing: persons as complex physical systems? 17
Scientific Realism and the Scientific Image 23
Empiricist approaches to the interpretation of scientific theories 24
Sellars' critique of empiricism and his defense of scientific realism 32
The ontological primacy of the scientific image 41
Meaning and Abstract Entities 48
Approaching thought through language: is meaning a relation? 49
Sellars' alternative functional role conception of meaning 55
The problem of abstract entities: introducing Sellars' nominalism 63
Abstract entities: problems and prospects for the metalinguistic account 69
Thought, Language, and the Myth of Genius Jones 77
Meaning and pattern-governed linguistic behavior 77
Bedrock uniformity and rule-following normativity in the space of meanings 83
Our Rylean ancestors and genius Jones's theory of innerthoughts 86
Privileged access and other issues in Sellars' account of thinking 97
Knowledge, Immediate Experience, and the Myth of the Given 106
The idea of the given and the case of sense-datum theories 107
Toward Sellars' account of perception and appearance 118
Epistemic principles and the holistic structure of our knowledge 125
Genius Jones, Act Two: the intrinsic character of our sensory experiences 136
Truth, Picturing, and Ultimate Ontology 143
Truth as semantic assertibility and truth as correspondence 144
Picturing, linguistic representation, and reference 147
Truth, conceptual change, and the ideal scientific image 158
The ontology of sensory consciousness and absolute processes 163
A Synoptic Vision: Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn 176
The structure of Sellars' normative 'Copernican revolution' 176
Intentions, volitions, and the moral point of view 178
Persons in the synoptic vision 185
Notes 191
Bibliography 228
Index 243
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James W Kieckhefer
reviewed Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn on April 10, 2014 Wilfrid Sellars
Lucid and compelling introduction to a truly remarkable 20th C. philosopher. A perfect balance between being substantially informative and enticingly inadequate - as all introductions should be.
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