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Sellars in Context: an Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works Peter Jackson Olen University of South Florida, [email protected]
University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School January 2012 Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works Peter Jackson Olen University of South Florida, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the Philosophy of Science Commons Scholar Commons Citation Olen, Peter Jackson, "Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works" (2012). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4191 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’s Early Works by Peter Olen A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Co-Major Professor: Stephen Turner, Ph.D. Co-Major Professor: Richard Manning, Ph.D. Rebecca Kukla, Ph.D. Alexander Levine, Ph.D. Willem deVries, Ph.D. Date of Approval: March 20th, 2012 Keywords: Logical Positivism, History of Analytic Philosophy Copyright © 2012, Peter Olen DEDICATION I dedicate this dissertation to the faculty members and fellow graduate students who helped me along the way. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I want to thank Rebecca Kukla, Richard Manning, Stephen Turner, Willem deVries, Alex Levine, Roger Ariew, Eric Winsberg, Charles Guigon, Nancy Stanlick, Michael Strawser, and the myriad of faculty members who were instrumental in getting me to this point. -
December 2001
MARCIA BARON CURRICULUM VITAE January 2020 Department of Philosophy Sycamore Hall 026 Indiana University 1033 E. 3rd St. Bloomington, IN 47405 Education: University of North Carolina Ph.D. (Philosophy) 1982 M.A. (Philosophy) 1978 Oberlin College B.A. with high honors (Majors: Philosophy and Spanish) 1976 Professional Positions: Honorary Professor, University of St. Andrews 2014-2017 Professor, University of St. Andrews 2012-2014 Rudy Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington 2004- Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington 2001- Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College Summers 2005 and 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Auckland (New Zealand) Summer 1999 Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1996-2001 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Melbourne (Australia) Summer 1995 Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1989-96 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago Spring 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Spring 1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University Spring 1985 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1983-89 Visiting Assistant Professor, UIUC 1982-83 Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1982-83 Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1981-82 Instructor, Illinois State University Spring 1980 Areas of Specialization: Ethics, Philosophy of Criminal Law Area of Competence: History of Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Issues in Feminism Academic Awards and Honors: Short-term faculty exchange award from IU with University of Bayreuth for June-July, 2019 Erasmus Program Guest Professorship, University of Pavia, Italy, March 2013 Awarded a year-long NEH fellowship for 2010 Awarded one semester of release time from College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), Indiana University, for Fall 2009 Joseph Rodman Visiting Professorship, University of Western Ontario, October 2005 President, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2002-2003 Vice-President, 2001-2002. -
XX Век II. METAETHICS of the 20Th CENTUR
Максимов Л.В. Сектор этики ИФ РАН (апрель 2016) Метаэтика. Избранная библиография. Часть II. – XX век II. METAETHICS OF THE 20th CENTURY (SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY) 1. Bruce A. Ackerman Social Justice in the Liberal State (New Haven: YAle University Press, 1980) 2. Robert Ackermann "Consistency and Ethics" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 69, 1969. 3. E. M. Adams "A Critique of the Emotive Theory of Ethical Terms" in Journal of Philosophy 46, 1949. EMA complains that Ayer and Stevenson do not adequately analyse approbation, failing properly to distinguish it from mere liking. If we do analyse it we find it involves a cognitive element in the form of a judgement of rightness. So it is incoherent to analyse judgements of rightness in terms of approval. "Word-Magic and Logical Analysis in the Field of Ethics" in Journal of Philosophy 47, 1950. "The Nature of Ethical Inquiry" in Journal of Philosophy 48, 1951. "Cartesianism in Ethics" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 16, 1956. "Mr Hare on the Role of Principles in Deciding" in Mind 65, 1956. "The Nature of 'Ought'" in Philosophical Studies 7, 1956. "'Ought' Again" in Philosophical Studies 8, 1957. "Hall's Analysis of "Ought"" in Journal of Philosophy 55, 1958. "The Theoretical and the Practical" in Review of Metaphysics 13, 1960. Ethical Naturalism and the Modern World-View (London: Oxford University Press, 1961). "Classical Moral Philosophy and Metaethics" in Ethics 74, 1964. "A Defense of Value Realism" in Southern Journal of Philosophy 4, 1966. "Gewirth on Reason and Morality" in Review of Metaphysics 33, 1980. "The Subjective Normative Structure of Agency" in Regis, Gewirth's Ethical Rationalism "Rationality and Morality" in Review of Metaphysics 46, 1993. -
Oldest Alumna, *57, Recalls First Lawrence Graduation Spade
A * / * l * ; ! 3 Vy V/ • - he a w r en tia n VOL. XLV. Number 63 T LLAWRENCE COLLEGE, APPLETON, WIS. Monday, June 11, 1928 Gold, Silver, Bronze Members of Hand O tt Elected Keys Aie Awarded Seniors Get ‘Lawrentian’ Given Recognition ‘World Based To Glee Club Members Emblems For Work To Receive Gold, silver, and bronze keys were Degrees At Establishes On a basis of faithfulness of at On Peace’ Dr. awarded glee club veterans for work tendance at rehearsals eighteen mem dining the 1928 season by Dean Carl bers of the first official Lawrence Spector Cup S. Waterman of the Lawrence con Graduation Student Fund band were awarded gold and silver Wriston Says servatory of music. emblems of recognition. Honor Is Awarded Annually To James Archie, Reynolds Challoner, Award Diplomas To 125 Today; Newspaper’s $3,000 Surplus To E. C. Moore, director of the band, “ Found Life On Assumption of Best All-Round Senior Lael Westberg and Wen/el Albrecht Four Honorary Degrees Be Awarded As Student was awarded an honorary gold ke*y by Peace” President Tells Student received gold keys for four years Granted Scholarships his pupils, and Lola Payne was also Seniors Today service in the club, while Kenneth awareleci a gold ke»y. Silver ke*ys went Elmer Ott, Kau- Emmons, Howard McMahon, Diehl A new scholarship fund has been to Leonard Zingler, Erne*st Gribble, The seventy-second annual com “ The world as we know it is founel- kauna, wns award- established al Lawrence college with outgoing seniors, and Ernest Eng- Snyder, David Seoular, Alan Har mencement exercises of Lawrence cil upon the assumption of peace, and ed the SjK*ct«r the income of $3,000, accumulated ejuist, an etflicer of the organization. -
Ordinary Language Analysis and Theological Method
ORDINARY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD .ARTHUR F. HOLMES, PH.D. ° The philosophical bete noir of the 1930's and 1940's is dead. Such at least is the case with that classical fonn of logical positivism which re duced all cognition to science and forced all science into a descriptivist and operational mold. Its principle tool, the verifiability theory of mean ing, has been weakened beyond effectiveness, metaphysics-once elimi nated from meaningful discourse-has been reintrOduced into respectable philosophic society in a chastened but profitable fonn, and as a result theology has been given another chance to show what it is really talking about. From today's perspective we might even regard logical positivism as an unpleasant but instructive interlude in the history of traditional philosophic inquiry. It was unpleasant because of its radical reduction ism, but it was instructive because of the attention it forced to questions of philosophic methodology and because of the repudiation it has won 1 of eighteenth and nineteenth century rationalisms. • If theology is to take advantage of this new chance to explain itself, it must learn from the positivist interlude to avoid pouring theology into either a rationalistic or a scientistic mold; for, let us face it, theology has at times mistreated Biblical religion, whether by tying its meaning and truth to Scientific-type verification or by uncritically adopting the ration alism of Thomas Aquinas or Thomas Reid or John Locke or even Hegel. Theology is undoubtedly a "rational inquiry" into redemptive history and revealed truth, but the thing we must watch is our definition of "ral;ional" and the consequent method of "inquiry." In British philosophy the bete noir has been succeeded by what is usually called "ordinary language analysis," a movement which had its roots in the Cambridge philosophers G. -
Epistemic Closure, Home Truths, and Easy Philosophy
Epistemic Closure, Home Truths and Easy Philosophy* There is a long-standing and well-known dispute in epistemology regarding whether knowledge is closed under known entailment. The general idea of such closure (“CLR”) is this: CLR1: For all persons S, necessarily, if S knows both that p and that p entails q, then S knows that q. In spite of the intuitiveness of CLR, there has been a decades-old stalemate regarding whether it is true, largely because some of the “Moorean” things we seem not only to know, but to know easily (like that I am sitting on a green chair)1 seem clearly to entail “heavyweight” philosophical things. These deep, philosophical items (like that I am not actually lying in bed dreaming or a brain in a vat (“BIV”) being fed green-chair stimulation through a tube) would seem to be of a nature that, if we can know them at all, we surely cannot easily know them. There is general agreement on the sorts of things that may be easily known and the sorts of deep philosophical truths that surely may not be. But on one side of the CLR dispute we find those who believe that because certain things are both known and known to entail items that not only may not be easily known, but arguably may not be known at all, CLR must be false; while on the other side of this debate we find those who, believing CLR to be true, either infer that the two required instances of knowledge (that p and that p entails q) are not both simultaneous with and appropriately connected to each other, or take the standards for what is required to know p to be so different from those required to know q, that no reasonable CLR can bridge the equivocal instances of “knowledge.”2 In this paper, I hope to demonstrate that two widely accepted facts * Thanks are due to Larry Tapper, Jim Van Cleve, Ron Allen, J.P. -
Gottfried Leibniz Abt. 1663
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Alvin I. Goldman -- Curriculum Vitae (September 2014)
Alvin I. Goldman -- Curriculum Vitae (September 2014) Current Address(es) Department of Philosophy Rutgers University 106 Somerset Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University 152 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ [email protected] Education Columbia University, B.A., 1960, Summa cum laude Princeton University, M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1965 Positions Held Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Board of Governors Professor, 2002- Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science University of Arizona, 1983-2002 Professor, 1983-1994, Regents’ Professor, 1994-2002 Department of Philosophy and Program in Cognitive Science University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor of Philosophy, 1980-83 University of Michigan, Assistant Professor, 1963-69; Associate Professor, 1969-73; Professor, 1973-80 Princeton University, Visiting Professor, Spring 2004 Yale University, Visiting Professor, Fall 1991 University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Associate Professor, Summer, 1972 Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Temporary Member of Senior Common Room, 1967, 1988 Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors Romanell Prize Lecturer on Philosophical Naturalism, American Philosophical Association (2010) Volume 79 of Grazer Philosophische Studien (2009) devoted to the philosophy of Alvin Goldman; reprinted as Reliable Knowledge and Social Epistemology, eds., G. Schurz and M. Werning, Rodopi (2009). Listed in Who’s Who in America. (2006) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2004). Resident, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, July 2003. Volume 29 of Philosophical Topics (2001) devoted to The Philosophy of Alvin Goldman. Co-winner (with William Talbott), Berger Prize in philosophy of law, American Philosophical Association, 2000-01. Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship, 2000-2001 (to deliver three public lectures at one’s home university, in this case, University of Arizona). -
Carnap, Quine and Sellars Volume 3, Number 8 Kenneth R
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy Conventionalism and the Impoverishment of the Space of Reasons: Carnap, Quine and Sellars Volume 3, Number 8 Kenneth R. Westphal Editor in Chief Kevin C. Klement, University of Massachusetts This article examines how Quine and Sellars develop informatively contrasting responses to a fundamental tension in Carnap’s seman- Editorial Board Gary Ebbs, Indiana University Bloomington tics ca. 1950. Quine’s philosophy could well be styled ‘Essays in Greg Frost-Arnold, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Radical Empiricism’; his assay of radical empiricism is invaluable Henry Jackman, York University for what it reveals about the inherent limits of empiricism. Careful Sandra Lapointe, McMaster University examination shows that Quine’s criticism of Carnap’s semantics in Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’ fails, that at its core Quine’s seman- Marcus Rossberg, University of Connecticut tics is for two key reasons incoherent and that his hallmark Thesis Mark Textor, King’s College London of Extensionalism is untenable. The tension in Carnap’s semantics Audrey Yap, University of Victoria together with Quine’s exposure of the severe limits of radical em- Richard Zach, University of Calgary piricism illuminate central features of Sellars’s philosophy: the fully general form of the myth of givenness, together with Sellars’s Review Editors alternative Kantian characterisation of understanding; the full sig- Juliet Floyd, Boston University nificance of Carnap’s distinction between conceptual analysis and Chris Pincock, Ohio State University conceptual explication, and its important methodological implica- Assistant Review Editor tions; the specifically pragmatic character of Sellars’s realism; and Sean Morris, Metropolitan State University of Denver Sellars’s methodological reasons for holding that philosophy must be systematic and that systematic philosophy must be deeply his- Design torically and textually informed. -
Wittgenstein and Thoreau (And Cavell): the Ordinary Weltanschauung Kelly Dean Jolley
Editor: Tibor R. Machan Managing Editor: Mark Turiano Executive Editor: Gregory R. Johnson Associate Editors: Walter BlocMEconomics Douglas J. DenlPhilosophy Kelly Dean JollylPhilosophy Leonard LiggiolHistoly Eric MacklPhilosophy John D. McCallielEconomics H. Joachim Maitrellnternational Relations John 0.NelsonlHistory Ralph RaicolHistoly Lynn ScarlettlPolitical Science Advisory Board: D. T. ~rmentanolUn jversity of Hartfoord Yale Brozenl University of Chicago Nicholas Capaldil University of Tulsa R. L. CunninghamlUniversity of San Francisco John Hospersl University of Southern Califonia Isreal M. KirznerlNew York University Kenneth G. LuceylSCNY College, Fredonia Fred D. Miller, Jr.lBowling Green State University Herbert Morrisl University of California, Los Angeles Clifton PerrylAuburn University Paul Craig RobertslGeorgetown University Morton L. SchagrinlSUiVY College, Fredonia Thomas S . SzaszlSUNYMedical Center, Syracuse E. G. WestlCarleton University Ottawa Copyright 1994 0Patrington Press, Enholmes Hall, Patrington, North Humberside, England HU 12 OPR. Telephone 0 1964 63003 3 Orders should sent to Barrie 0. Pettman at Patrington Press (address above). Reason Papers A Journal of lnterdisciplinary Normative Studies Articles Wittgenstein and Thoreau (and Cavell): The Ordinary Weltanschauung Kelly Dean Jolley .................................................................................................... 3 Liberalism and the Moral Significance of Individualism: A Deweyan View !KG. Callaway ............................................................................................................... -
ORDINARY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS and THEOLOGICAL METHOD The
ORDINARY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD ARTHUR F. HOLMES, PH.D.* The philosophical bete noir of the 1930's and 1940's is dead. Such at least is the case with that classical form of logical positivism which re- duced all cognition to science and forced all science into a descriptivist and operational mold. Its principle tool, the verifiability theory of mean- ing, has been weakened beyond effectiveness, metaphysics—once elimi- nated from meaningful discourse—has been reintroduced into respectable philosophic society in a chastened but profitable form, and as a result theology has been given another chance to show what it is really talking about. From today's perspective we might even regard logical positivism as an unpleasant but instructive interlude in the history of traditional philosophic inquiry. It was unpleasant because of its radical reduction- ism, but it was instructive because of the attention it forced to questions of philosophic methodology and because of the repudiation it has won of eighteenth and nineteenth century rationalisms.1. If theology is to take advantage of this new chance to explain itself, it must learn from the positivist interlude to avoid pouring theology into either a rationalistic or a scientistic mold; for, let us face it, theology has at times mistreated Biblical religion, whether by tying its meaning and truth to scientific-type verification or by uncritically adopting the ration- alism of Thomas Aquinas or Thomas Reid or John Locke or even Hegel. Theology is undoubtedly a "rational inquiry" into redemptive history and revealed truth, but the thing we must watch is our definition of "rational" and the consequent method of "inquiry." In British philosophy the bete noir has been succeeded by what is usually called "ordinary language analysis," a movement which had its roots in the Cambridge philosophers G. -
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy X-1 | 2018 Eco and Pragmatism Peter OLEN, Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of Normativity London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 240 pages Gabriele Aleandri Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/1180 DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.1180 ISSN: 2036-4091 Publisher Associazione Pragma Electronic reference Gabriele Aleandri, « Peter OLEN, Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of Normativity », European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy [Online], X-1 | 2018, Online since 20 July 2018, connection on 24 September 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/1180 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ ejpap.1180 This text was automatically generated on 24 September 2020. Author retains copyright and grants the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Peter Olen, Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of Normativity 1 Peter OLEN, Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of Normativity London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 240 pages Gabriele Aleandri REFERENCES Peter OLEN, Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of Normativity, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 240 pages 1 In many ways, the figure of Wilfrid Sellars personifies the second half of XXth century American philosophy. He lied at the crossroad of three powerful traditions: German rationalistic phenomenology, as Marvin Farber’s scholar; logical empiricism, as a