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Abstract
It is central to PSIM that there is a clash between the manifest and the scientific images that is to be resolved, essentially, by the victory of the scientific. It is a dramatic story — the Bildungsroman of the truth itself. The longstanding conflict over teaching evolution versus “creation science” in the schools shows that Sellars has put a finger on an important tension in modern culture. But I’ve come to believe that Sellars has not accurately captured the structure of the tension nor how we should envision its ultimate resolution. Since the dramatic narrative of PSIM is so central to Sellars’s thought, these failures could entail rejecting the Sellarsian framework in general, but I think we can isolate the errors in Sellars’s thinking here sufficiently well to use the remaining principles of his thought to construct a better view of how these things hang together
Department
Philosophy
Publication Date
2016
Publication Title
Sellars and His Legacy
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Recommended Citation
“Images, Descriptions, and Pictures: Personhood and The Clash” in Sellars and His Legacy , James O’Shea, ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016): 47-59.
Comments
This is a Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Oxford University Press in Sellars and His Legacy in 2016.