Getting Beyond Idealisms

Authors

• Willem A. deVries, University of New Hampshire - Main CampusFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1870-2935

Abstract

Wilfrid Sellars is known as a scientific realist.  His battles against the epistemologically motivated idealism of the empiricist tradition are familiar.  Less well known are the extraordinary measures he took to avoid falling into a different kind of idealism —metaphysically motivated idealism.  Here is the story.

Department

Philosophy

Publication Date

2009

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Recommended Citation

“Getting Beyond Idealisms” in Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism: Essays on the Anniversary of "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," W. A. deVries, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a chapter published by Oxford University Press in Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism:  Essays on the Anniversary of "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" in 2009.