Wilfrid Sellars by Willem A. Devries
A concise, critical introduction to the philosopher’s central project, tracing his sustained attack on traditional empiricism—most famously the critique of the “myth of the given”—and explicating his distinction between the manifest and scientific images of the world. The book explains how his reconstruction of perception, language, and thought places normativity and conceptuality at the center of understanding minds, arguing for an inferentialist, anti‑foundationalist account of knowledge that seeks to naturalize the space of reasons without reducing it to mere causal description. Alongside clear expositions of key arguments and texts, the author assesses the coherence and legacy of these ideas, showing how they reframe debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language and remain influential for contemporary analytic philosophy.
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