Quotable Sellars 1

We asked WSS members to tell us their favorite Sellars’ quotes. Here they are, with commentary, in chronological order. Enjoy! — From 1947: “Epistemology and the New Way of Words” [ENWW], Journal of Philosophy 44 (1947): 645–60. Reprinted in Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds: The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars [PPPW], edited and introduced by [...]

Posted by Aaron Schiller on December 12th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Quotable Sellars

Sellars Centenary Videos

In June 2012, the Sellars Centenary, hosted by University College, Dublin, met in Dublin. Conference speakers included Robert Brandom, Paul Churchland, Willem deVries, Robert Kraut, Mark Lance and Rebecca Kukla, John McDowell, Ruth Garrett Millikan, James O’Shea, Huw Price, David Rosenthal, Johanna Seibt, and Michael Williams. The conference talks were recorded and the videos are [...]

Posted by Carl Sachs on October 11th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Announcements

WSS Interview #1: Willem deVries

Welcome to the first in what we hope will be a long, and very interesting, series of WSS interviews, an interview with our very own WSS President: Professor Willem deVries. Professor deVries was a Ph.D. student of Wilfrid Sellars (University of Pittsburgh, 1981) and teaches at the University of New Hampshire. He wrote his dissertation [...]

Posted by Aaron Schiller on September 4th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Interviews

Between Two Images: The Manifest and Scientific Conceptions of the Human Being, 50 Years On

Jim O’Shea just posted this news in the discussion board, but I thought I’d bump it up to the front page since it will surely be of interest to everyone. Humana.Mente has just published a volume on Sellars edited by Carlo Gabbani titled: Between Two Images: The Manifest and Scientific Conceptions of the Human Being, [...]

Posted by Aaron Schiller on May 25th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in New Works

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