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Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The Metaphysics of Practice brings together his writings on practical philosophy-published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence-with an editorial introduction explaining how the pieces fit into Sellars's philosophy as a whole.

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Science and Metaphysics contains Sellars' John Locke Lectures. Besides considerable attention to doctrines of Kant's, Sellars presents "in systematic form the views I have developed and modified in paper after paper over the past twenty years.

This book is a revised version of Sellars' John Dewey Lectures for 1974. It is an "attempt to bring together in reasonably systematic form certain views on ontology, semantics and the philosophy of mind" that he had developed over the "previous thirty years.

This book is a collection of essays by the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. These essays are from the late 1950s and early 1960s and concern topics in metaphysics and epistemology.

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 imaginati...

shifting of analytic philosophy from its Humean into its Kantian stage would entail.

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 imaginati...

philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.

Sellars' Klassiker "Der Empirismus und die Philosophie des Geistes", der nun erstmals vollständig in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, zählt zu den wichtigsten Schriften der analytischen Nachkriegsphilosophie. Mit seiner Kritik am sogenannten "Mythos des Gegegebenen" zielt er auf das Ende einer auf Sinnesdaten basierten Erkenntnistheorie. Sein Vorschlag, Gedanken und Sinneseindrücke als postulierte Entitäten einer Alltagstheorie von Denken und W...