Reading Kant with Sellars : Reconceiving Kantian Themes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ranaee, Mahdi.

Contributor:

Seiberth, Luz Christopher.

Series:

Routledge Studies in American Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Sellars, Wilfrid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy--both theoretical and practical--in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement Page

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

References for Sellars' Works

Introduction: Kantian Themes in a Transcendental Linguistic Turn

Part I: Logic and History

Part II: Sensations and Intuitions

Part III: Being and Categories

Part IV: Reason, Modality, and Freedom

Notes

References

Chapter 1: Letting the Dead Speak: On Sellars' Kant

1.1 Doing Philosophy Historically

1.2 Avoiding the Philosophical Given

1.3 Understanding Intuition

1.3.1 Intuition and Discursivity

1.3.2 Cognition and Things in Themselves

1.4 The Spirit of the Age

Bibliography

Chapter 2: Transcendental Logic and Sellars' Early Papers

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Aligning Pure Pragmatics and Transcendental Logic

2.3 Psychology and Psychologism

2.4 Metalanguage, Self-Consciousness, and Rules

Chapter 3: Sellars and Kant on Intuitions and the Problem of Externality

3.1 Sellars on Kantian Intuitions in Science and Metaphysics

3.2 Questions about Sellars' Assumptions

3.3 What Kant Could and (Perhaps) Would Have Said

3.4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4: Kant and Sellars on Sensations

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Kant and the Status of Sensations

4.3 Sellars on Kant and the Status of Sensation

4.3.1 Sensations are Mental States

4.3.2 Sensations Have No Epistemic Import

4.3.3 Sensations Are Structured

4.3.4 Sensations Are Analogically Structured

4.4 The Argumentative Route to Sensations

4.5 Conclusion

Chapter 5: The Role of Imagination in Sellars' Theory of Experience

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Sense-Impression Inference

5.3 Image Models.

5.4 The Conceptual Structure of Image Models

Chapter 6: What Are Kant's Sensible Intuitions?: Nonconceptualism, Sellars, and Allais

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Combining Anti-phenomenalist Empirical Realism with Transcendental Idealism

6.3 The Role of Sensory Impressions in Sellars' Reading of Kant on Sensible Intuition

6.4 The Role of Concepts in Sellars' Reading of Kant on Sensible Intuition

6.5 A Critical Contrast with Allais' Direct Acquaintance Reading of Kant on Intuition

6.6 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Sellars and Kant on Categories and Their Schematization

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Culminating Statement of the "Leading Thread"

7.3 Some Remarks on the Role of Kant's "Transcendental Deduction"

7.3.1 Sellars on Transcendental Schemata

7.4 Transcendental Imagination Applied: Kant on Transcendental Schemata

7.5 A Functional Conception of Schemata and Kant's Schemata of Reason

7.6 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Why Does Wilfrid Sellars Not Have a Transcendental Deduction?

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Categories: Kantian and Sellarsian

8.3 Kant, Sellars, and Transcendental Deductions

Chapter 9: The Forms of Representation: How to be a Kantian realist

9.1 Kant's Arguments for Transcendental Idealism

9.2 Sellars's Critique of Kant

9.2.1 The "ing"/"ed" distinction

9.2.2 The Intuition/Concept Distinction

9.2.3 Representational Form

9.3 Conceptual Form, Sensory Form, and Counterpart Properties

9.4 How Does Intuition Guide Thought?

9.4.1 Space, the A Priori, and Things-in-Themselves

9.5 How to be a Transcendental Idealist

Chapter 10: Sellars' Two Worlds

10.1 Introduction

10.2 A Range of Views in Kant Interpretation.

10.3 Pittsburghian Appearances

10.4 Sellarsian Reality

10.5 Resolving the Metaphysical Problem

10.6 Resolving the Epistemological Problem

10.7 Conclusion

Chapter 11: Sellars' Metaontology

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Kant's Ontology of Mental Acts

11.3 Reference (Intentional Purport)

11.4 Sellars' Levels of Abstraction

11.4.1 Two Conceptual Movements: Abstraction and Specification

11.5 Charging the Tissue

11.5.1 A New Foundation?

11.5.2 Levels of Organization: Physical-1, Physical-2, and Physical-3

Writings by Wilfrid Sellars

Chapter 12: Understanding Reason: A Defense of Kantian Naturalism

12.1 Reason and Nature

12.2 Hyperstate Semantics and Single-Minded Agency

12.3 Single-Minded Agency and the Exercise of Practical Rationality

12.4 The Instrumentally Rational and the Moral Points of View

12.5 Deontic Reasoning, Deontic Truth, and Kantian Naturalism

Chapter 13: Inferentialism, Modal Anti-realism, and the Problem of Affection

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Inferentialism and the Kant-Sellars Thesis

13.3 The Failure of the Ideal of Pure Description

13.4 Picturing: The Solution?

13.5 The Problem of Affection, Redux

13.6 Conclusion

Chapter 14: "To Show the Compatibility of Compatibilism and Incompatibilism": Sellars's Reinvention of Kant's Conception of Free Will

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Noumena and Phenomena

14.3 Kant's Good Ideas About Freedom, Badly Executed

14.4 The Manifest Image and Intentional Explanation

14.5 Determinism and Sellars's Two Images

14.6 Willkür: Satisfying the Negative and Positive Conditions on Free Action

14.6.1 Sellars on the Negative Condition

14.6.2 Sellars on the Positive Condition.

14.7 Wille: Sellars on the Capacity for Autonomous Action

14.7.1 The Priority of Public Reasons

14.7.2 Public Reasons and Kantian Autonomy

14.7.3 Kantian Wille in Sellars's Ethical Theory

14.8 Conclusion

Index.

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ISBN:

9781040268780

1040268781

9781003336815

1003336817

9781040268773

1040268773

OCLC:

1474243190