Wilfrid Sellars's guest appearances

Wilfrid Sellars

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

The Reeds Podcast

Marcus Aurelius

Lise van Boxel

Nick Bostrom

Eugene Thacker

Charles Mills

Richard Rorty

Tennessee Williams

Paula Cole

Isaiah Berlin

Robert Wright

Martin Buber

James Joyce

Philip K. Dick

Donna Haraway

David Cross

OwlTail

I'm joined by Cole to talk about Wilfrid Sellars' essay "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man". Sellars is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, although he is relatively unknown outside of academia. In this essay, he outlines what he sees as the aim of philosophy, and how it seeks to reconcile two competing images we have of the world: the manifest and the scientific. The episode is a little longer than usual, but Sellars demanded it! 

I'm joined by Cole to talk about Wilfrid Sellars' essay "<a href="http://www.ditext.com/sellars/psim.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man</a>". Sellars is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, although he is relatively unknown outside of academia. In this essay, he outlines what he sees as the aim of philosophy, and how it seeks to reconcile two competing images we have of the world: the manifest and the scientific. The episode is a little longer than usual, but Sellars demanded it!

Close Reed #9: Wilfrid Sellars - Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man

On "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" (1956). Is knowledge based on a "foundation," as Descartes, Locke, et al. thought? Sellars says no: The allegedly basic elements upon which knowledge would be built either have to be propositions, in which case they involve a lot of prior knowledge involved in language use and so aren't really basic, or they're "raw feels," in which case they can't actually serve as reasons for anything; reasons have to be propositional. With guest Lawrence Dallman. End song: "Senses on Fire" by Mercury Rev. Check out the interview with singer Jonathan Donahue in Nakedly Examined Music ep. 14. Please support PEL!

On "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" (1956). Is knowledge based on a "foundation," as Descartes, Locke, et al. thought? Sellars says no: The allegedly basic elements upon which knowledge would be built either have to be propositions, in which case they involve a lot of prior knowledge involved in language use and so aren't really basic, or they're "raw feels," in which case they can't actually serve as reasons for anything; reasons have to be propositional. With guest Lawrence Dallman. End song: "Senses on Fire" by Mercury Rev. Check out <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/05/01/nem14-jonathan-donahue-mercury-rev-mountain-man-of-subtlety/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">the interview with singer Jonathan Donahue in Nakedly Examined Music ep. 14</a>. <a href="http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/support" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Please support PEL!</a>

Episode 154: Wilfrid Sellars on the Myth of the Given