There’s a new collection of essays over at Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, edited by Patrick J. Reider, that looks to build on work done by Chauncey Maher in his recent The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom. Here’s the TOC: I. An Introduction to the Pittsburgh School and Normative Functionalism “Normative Functionalism” [...]

WSS member Patrick Reider (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg) has a nice review in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective of Chauncey Maher‘s recent book The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it [...]

Dear WSS members and friends, Here are at least three publications that deserve your attention! 1.The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowel, Brandom, by Chauncey Maher (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, June 2012) Editor’s description: In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by [...]

Dear WSS friends, Two papers deserving great attention: 1. On philosophy of mind, by one the very best Sellars’ scholars : James R. O’Shea, “The ‘theory theory’ of mind and the aims of Sellars’ original myth of Jones”, forthcoming in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Abstract: http://www.springerlink.com/content/mm88rgw444x77423/ 2. On theory of knowledge (coherentism) : Bruce Russell, [...]

Here is a new paper on a sellarsian ontological theme: nominalism Sellarsian Particulars Matteo Morganti Acta Anal DOI 10.1007/s12136-011-0145-x Abstract: In this article, a critical assessment is carried out of the two available forms of nominalism with respect to the ontological constitution of material objects: resemblance nominalism and trope theory. It is argued that these two nominalistic ontologies [...]

Dear WSS members, I am pleased to open the WSS New Works section. Here you will find updated references and links to books, papers and reviews that might be of interest to anyone involved in sellarsian studies, or just curious about what is going on in the recent literature on various sellarsian issues (e.g. perceptual [...]