Wilfrid Sellars: Latest Scholarship

Interpreting Sellars: Critical Essays, edited by Carl B. Sachs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Contents

List of Contributors  vii

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations x

Editor’s Introduction: Why Sellars Matters 1
      Carl B. Sachs

1 Sellars’ Conception of Categories as Classifying Conceptual Roles and Its Consequences 10
     James R. O’Shea

2 Practical Reality Defended 30
     Willem A. deVries

3 The Place of Spirit in Nominalistic Metaphysics 46
     Dionysis Christias

4 Epistemological Foundationalism, Metaphysical Dogmatism, and the Myth of the Acategorial Given 73
     Daniel Sacilotto

5 Recovering the Original Image 97
     Kevin Temple

6 Discursive Animals: A Sellarsian Approach to the Difference between Animal and Human Experience 117
     Rick Grush

7 Some Reflections on Language Games … and ChatGPT 140
     Alessandra Buccella

8 Analyzing “Ought”: Expressivist or Metalinguistic? 154
     Stefanie Dach

9 Sellars, Naturalism, and the “New Failure of Nerve” 172
     Jeremy Randel Koons

10 A Clue to Sellars’ System: Transcendental Linguistics and the Scheme of Things 192
     Luz Christopher Seiberth

11 Sellarsian Picturing and Neo-Kantian Theories of Representation 211
     August Buholzer

12 Sellars and Peirce on Truth and the End of Inquiry 227
     Catherine Legg

13 Sellars in Light of Dewey: Pragmatism and Mind in Nature 249
     Brandon Beasley

14 Taking True and Making True: From Sellars to Rorty 267
     Anke Breunig

Bibliography 285

Index 303

Wilfrid Sellars’s Metaphilosophy: Two Images and the Philosophy in Between, edited by László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Contents

List of Figures vii

Acknowledgments viii

List of Abbreviations ix

Aims, Hopes, and Images: A Prologue to Sellars’s Metaphilosophy 1
     László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete

Part I Clash of the Images

1 Philosophy and Its Images of Man 27
     Danielle Macbeth

2 Semantic Holism and the Clash of Images 39
     Willem deVries

3 Normativity and the Scientific Image: A Sellarsian-Realist Perspective 55
     Thodoris Dimitrakos and Stathis Psillos

Part II Metaphysics and the Sciences

4 Neo-Sellarsian Images of Philosophy and Science 73
     Ted Parent

5 Modal Structure and Sellars’s Metaphysical Methodology 89
     Catherine Legg and Aiden Meyer

6 Scientific Metaphysics and the Stereoscopic View of Sellars’s Two Images 107
     Matthias Egg

7 From the Myth of the Given to Human Freedom: A (Neo-)Kantian perspective 117
     Michael Esfeld

Part III Historical Appropriations

8 A Kantian Defense of Sellarsian Picturing 129
     David Landy

9 On Sellars’s Logical Atomist Scientific Ontology 147
     James O’Shea

10 Sellars’s Logical Empiricism 161
     Michael Hicks

Part IV Concepts and Other Philosophical Tools

11 Is Perceptual Knowledge Framework-Relative? McDowell Contra Sellars 181
     Dionysis Christias

12 The Metaphor of the Space of Reasons 195
     Stefanie Dach

13 Hypergraphing the Space of Reason 211
     Luz Christopher Seiberth

Bibliography 233

Notes on Contributors 247

Index 251

See also:

Philosophy for the Future: The Quest of Modern Materialism: Foreword & Contents by Roy Wood Sellars, V.J. McGill, Marvin Farber

Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

American Philosophy Study Guide

Offsite:

Sellars, Wilfrid. Science, Perception and Reality, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963; Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1991.

“Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man” (1960), pp. 1-40.

Aristotelian Philosophies of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars

Rediscovering Wilfrid Sellars, presented by David Rutledge, ABC Radio National, 30 January 2025.