Overview

Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) was a ground-breaking figure in twentieth-century philosophy. He co-founded the first American journal devoted to analytic philosophy, and he made major contributions to several areas of philosophy, but his work has been under-explored. This wide-ranging volume of new essays conveys the importance of Sellars's contributions to philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ethical theory, and the history of philosophy. The essays explore such topics as Sellars's relation to Kant and Hegel, comparisons of Sellars with Continental philosophers such as Heidegger and Deleuze, new work on Sellars's philosophy of mind in relation to animal cognition and to AI, his contributions to ethical theory, and his place in the history of philosophy, including neo-Kantianism and American pragmatism.

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Author:   Carl B. Sachs (Marymount University, Virginia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781009330534

ISBN 10:   1009330535
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   07 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Sellars' Conception of Categories as Classifying Conceptual Roles and its Consequences James R. O'Shea; 2. Practical Reality Defended Willem A. deVries; 3. The Place of Spirit in Nominalistic Metaphysics Dionysis Christias; 4. Epistemological Foundationalism, Metaphysical Dogmatism, and The Myth of the Acategorial Given Daniel Sacilotto; 5. Recovering the Original Image Kevin Temple; 6. Discursive animals: A Sellarsian approach to the difference between animal and human experience Rick Grush; 7. Some Reflections on Language Games…and ChatGPT Alessandra Bucella; 8. Analyzing 'Ought' – Expressivist or Metalinguistic? Stefanie Dach; 9. Sellars, Naturalism, and the 'New Failure of Nerve' Jeremy Randel Koons; 10. A Clue to Sellars' System: Transcendental Linguistics and the Scheme of Things Luz Christopher Seiberth; 11. Sellarsian Picturing and Neo-Kantian Theories of Representation August Buholzer; 12. Sellars and Peirce on Truth and the End of Inquiry Catherine Legg; 13. Sellars in Light of Dewey: Pragmatism and Mind in Nature Brandon Beasley; 14. Taking True and Making True: From Sellars to Rorty Anke Breunig.

Reviews

'Interpreting Sellars is an important and highly interesting contribution both to Sellars scholarship and to all the core philosophical issues that Sellars's work touches on. This collection of new essays brings together established experts in the field and a new generation of young scholars connecting Sellars's work to such diverse topics as animal cognition and classical pragmatism. Each of these essays is fascinating and worthy of careful study. Few will find nothing here to disagree with, but fewer still will not profit from thinking through that disagreement.' Mark Lance, Georgetown University

Author Information

Carl B. Sachs is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of Intentionality and the Myths of the Given (2014) and is vice-president of the Wilfrid Sellars Society.

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