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Abstract
Robert Brandom has strongly criticized Wilfrid Sellars' claim that the Scientific Image will replace the Manifest Image. But I think that Brandom has not yet sealed the deal: there is another construal of Sellars’s distinction that could survive Brandom’s arguments. It is not a construal that is obvious on the face of it nor can I claim that it is clearly the construal that Sellars had in mind. But it is a construal of Sellars’s doctrine that is intrinsically interesting. And it is a construal that, given Brandom’s endorsement of Sellars on categories, and given, further, Brandom’s own distinctively Hegelian leanings, Brandom needs to face. I will begin by reviewing Brandom’s argument in more detail; I will then articulate a different construal of the relation between the manifest and the scientific images and show that it can withstand Brandom’s critique in part because it is more consonant with the construal of the categories that Brandom himself endorses.
Department
Philosophy
Publication Date
2017
Publication Title
Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy
Publisher
Routledge
Recommended Citation
“Images, Objects, and Conceptual Change” An Author Meets Critics session on Robert Brandom’s From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars in Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy, David Pereplyotchik, Deborah R. Barnbaum, eds., in Routledge Studies in American Philosophy. (New York: Routledge, 2017): 219-249.
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