One of John McDowell’s central concerns is to understand the relation between mind and world, to understand intentionality. McDowell believes that ‘that there is no better way for us to approach an understanding of intentionality than by working toward understanding Kant’ (McDowell 1998: 432). McDowell also believes that this conviction is shared by Wilfrid Sellars and that ‘coming to terms wit...

What is the relationship between saying ‘I know that Q’ and guaranteeing that Q? John Austin, Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars all agreed that there is some important connection, but disagreed over what exactly it was. In this paper I discuss each of their accounts and present a new one of my own. Drawing on speech-act theory and recent research on the epistemic norms of speech acts, I sug...

Wilfrid Sellars is usually read as claiming that only the unobservable, theoretical objects which science would postulate at ideal end of inquiry are real. Against this, Willem deVries has suggested we can develop a notion practical reality in context Sellars's philosophy pertain primarily to commonsense objects. I use deVries's suggestion foil clarify own commitments about practical. show not ...

Al analizar las contribuciones de Wilfrid Sellars para tratar la complejidad lo que es el conocimiento y cómo se forma, epistemología ontología, complemento teórico Thomas Metzinger en ontología Sellars, exploro estancación arte contemporáneo causada por correlación estética del sujeto objeto puede superarse con un paradigma nuevo poscontemporáneo. En primer lugar, utilizo visión estereoscópica...

Is knowledge justified true belief? Most philosophers believe that the answer is clearly ‘no’, as demonstrated by Gettier cases. But Gettier cases don’t obviously refute the traditional view that knowledge is justified true belief (JTB). There are ways of resisting Gettier cases, at least one of which is partly successful. Nevertheless, when properly understood, Gettier cases point to a flaw in...

1. Wilfrid Sellars employs the metaphor of the space of reasons to express a certain conception of knowledge: “in characterising an episode or state as that of knowing ... one is placing it in the logical space of reasons, of justifying and being able to justify what one says”. A growing number of philosophers employ the same metaphor to express a conception of at least some (other) mental stat...