"Some Remarks on Sellars' Theory of Experience"
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Abstract
Though the paper remains resolutely in the Sellarsian framework, it attacks particular Sellarsian usages and positions in an effort to make the whole more coherent. One point is Sellars' regrettable usage of 'immediate experience' in EPM. The second is Sellars' Prichardian notion that in perception we constantly mistake our sensations for properties of physical objects. The third is Sellars' treatment of the 'coolth' of his pink ice cube as of different status than it pinkness. Lastly, I raise a question for which I do not find a clear answer in Sellars' texts: just how do imaging and sensing differ?
Department
Philosophy
Publication Date
2020
Publisher
Routledge
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ISBN: 978-0-8153-8449-1
Recommended Citation
“Some Remarks on Sellars’ Theory of Experience” in Sellars & 20th Century Philosophy. Edited by Stefan Brandt and Anke Breunig. Routledge, 2020: 207-20.