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Essays in Philosophy and Its History

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  • © 1974

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Authors:
  1. Wifrid Sellars

    1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 2)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reason and the Art of Living in Plato

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 3-26

    3. On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 27-43

    4. Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 44-61

    5. …This I or He or It (The Thing) which Thinks…

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 62-90

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Language as Thought and as Communication

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 93-117

    3. Reply To Marras

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 118-127

    4. Some Problems about Belief

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 128-147

    5. Reply to Quine

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 148-171

    6. Conceptual Change

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 172-188

    7. Actions and Events

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 189-213

    8. Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person

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      Pages 214-241

  4. Part Three

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Empiricism and Abstract Entities

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 245-286

    3. On the Introduction of Abstract Entities

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 287-317

    4. Toward a Theory of the Categories

      • Wifrid Sellars
      Pages 318-339

    5. Classes as Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox

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      Pages 340-363

  5. Part Four

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 365-365
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About this book

In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never­ theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi­ tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur­ veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi­ losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re­ spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Wifrid Sellars

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays in Philosophy and Its History

  • Authors: Wifrid Sellars

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2291-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1974

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0526-6Published: 31 December 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-2293-4Published: 18 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2291-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 462

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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