Wilfrid Sellars —— Naturalism with a Normative Turn

----- 威尔弗里德·塞勒斯

ISBN: 9780745630038 出版年：2015 页码：271 James O'Shea Wiley

Dedication. Preface. Introduction. Chapter One: The Philosophical Quest and the Clash of the Images. The quest for a stereoscopic fusion of the manifest and scientific images. The clash of the images and the status of the sensible qualities. Sensing, thinking, and willing: persons as complex physical systems?. Chapter Two: Scientific Realism and the Scientific Image. Empiricist approaches to the interpretation of scientific theories Sellars' critique of empiricism and his defense of scientific realism. The ontological primacy of the scientific image. Chapter Three: Meaning and Abstract Entities. Approaching thought through language: is meaning a relation?. Sellars' alternative functional role conception of meaning. The problem of abstract entities: introducing Sellars' nominalism. Abstract entities: problems and prospects for the metalinguistic account. Chapter Four: Thought, Language, and the Myth of Genius Jones. Meaning and pattern-governed linguistic behavior. Bedrock uniformity and rule-following normativity in the space of meanings. Our Rylean ancestors and genius. Jones's theory of inner thoughts. Privileged access and other issues in Sellars' account of thinking. Chapter Five: Knowledge, Immediate Experience, and the Myth of the Given. The idea of the given and the case of sense-datum theories. Toward Sellars' account of perception and appearance. Epistemic principles and the holistic structure of our knowledge. Genius Jones act two: the intrinsic character of our sensory experiences. Chapter Six: Truth, Picturing, and Ultimate Ontology. Truth as semantic assertibility and truth as correspondence. Picturing, linguistic representation, and reference. Truth, conceptual change, and the ideal scientific image. The ontology of sensory consciousness and absolute processes. Chapter Seven: A Synoptic Vision: Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn. The structure of Sellars' normative 'copernican revolution.'. Intentions, volitions, and the moral point of view. Persons in the synoptic vision.