Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology : Intersections, Encounters, Oppositions

Authors

Daniele De Santis
Danilo Manca

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Series

Series in Continental Thought

Description

Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school–style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.

This collection of essays brings into dialogue the analytic philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars—founder of the Pittsburgh school of thought—and phenomenology, with a special focus on the work of Edmund Husserl. The book’s wide-ranging discussions include the famous Myth of the Given but also more traditional problems in the philosophy of mind and phenomenology such as the

status of perception and imagination
nature of intentionality
concept of motivation
relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic experiences
relationship between conceptual and preconceptual experiences

Moreover, the volume addresses the conflicts between Sellars’s manifest and scientific images of the world and Husserl’s ontology of the life-world. The volume takes as a point of departure Sellars’s criticism of the Myth of the Given, but only to show the many problems that label obscures. Contributors explain aspects of Sellars’s philosophy vis-à-vis Husserl’s phenomenology, articulating the central problems and solutions of each. The book is a must-read for scholars and students interested in learning more about Sellars and for those comparing Continental and analytic philosophical thought.

Contributors

Walter Hopp
Wolfgang Huemer
Roberta Lanfredini
Danilo Manca
Karl Mertens
Antonio Nunziante
Jacob Rump
Daniele De Santis
Michela Summa

Copyright Statement

Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology © 2023 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821448014

Publication Date

6-2023

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Wilfrid Sellars, Phenomenology, Pittsburgh School, Edmund Husserl, Perception, Imagination

Disciplines

Comparative Philosophy | Philosophy

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

De Santis, Daniele and Manca, Danilo, "Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology : Intersections, Encounters, Oppositions" (2023). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 45.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/45