Sellars and the Space of Reasons

Sellars y el espacio de las razones

John Mcdowell
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John Mcdowell: PITT - University of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)

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Abstract: In Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind Sellars introduces the image of the space of reasons, and delineates a non-traditional empiricism, uncontaminated by the Myth of the Given. Brandom takes Sellars's drift to be against empiricism as such, against the very idea that something deserving to be called "experience" could be relevant to the acquisition of empirical knowledge in any way except merely causally. In this paper I attack Brandom's idea that we anyway need a concession to externalism for non-inferential knowledge and suggest that in the space of reasons Sellars's, the experience play a more than merely causal role in a fully internalist epistemology of observation.

Keywords: Myth of the Given; Externalism; Experience; Epistemology; Mito de lo dado; Externalismo; Experiencia; Epistemología (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10-28
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Published in Analysis. Claves de Pensamiento Contemporáneo, 2018, 21 (8), pp.1-22. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.2560006⟩

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2560006

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