Principles of Emergent Realism: Philosophical Essays

by Roy Wood Sellars

Contents

                                                                                     Page

Foreword                                                                            v
Introduction                                                                       xi
Acknowledgments                                                             xxi

PART I
BASIC EXPLANATORY CONCEPTIONS

INTRODUCTION                                                               3
    Sensations as Guides to Perceiving                                     4
    Referential Transcendence                                                17
    Causality and Substance                                                   27

PART II
THE DEVELOPMENT OF REFERENTIAL PHYSICAL REALISM

INTRODUCTION TO ESSAYS                                         51
     In Quest of a Functionally Definitive Realism                     64
     Is There a Cognitive Relation?                                          75
     A Thing and Its Properties                                                84
     The Status of the Categories                                             97
     Epistemological Dualism Vs. Metaphysical Dualism         101
     A Re‑examination of Critical Realism                              112
     A Clarification of Critical Realism                                    125
     Why Naturalism and Not Materialism                             131
     Is Naturalism Enough?                                                    140
     Reformed Materialism and Intrinsic Endurance                150

PART III
THE MIND‑BODY TEST CASE

INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSAYS                                174
    A Fourth Progression in the Relation of
        Mind and Body                                                            176
    Consciousness and Conservation                                      182
     Is Consciousness Alien to the Physical                             185
     The Double‑knowledge Approach
         to the Mind‑Body Problem                                          188
     An Analytic Approach to the Mind‑Body Problem           202

PART IV
OTHER TESTS OF EMERGENT REALISM:
THE THEORY OF TRUTH AND THE THEORY OF VALUE

INTRODUCTION                                                               229
     The Theory of Truth                                                         232
         "True" as Contextually Implying Correspondence          232
     The Theory of Value   239
         Can a Reformed Materialism Do Justice to Values?      239
     In What Sense Do Value Judgments and Moral
         Judgments Have Objective Import?                              256
     Guided Causality, Using Reason, and "Free‑Will”             261

PART V
OTHER TESTS OF EMERGENT REALISM:
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY                                                    268
    Introduction to Social Philosophy                                      268
    Socialism and Democracy                                                 277
    Three Stages of Socialism                                                 279
    Reason and Revolution                                                     289
    The Quality of Democracy                                                293
    Objectives and Priorities                                                   301
    Orientation in Social Philosophy                                        309
    The Philosophy of Religion                                                312
        Introduction to Philosophy of Religion                           312
    The Next Step in Religion (1918)                                      314
    Naturalizing the Spiritual (1928)                                        321
    A Humanist Manifesto (1933)                                           331
    Cosmic Perspective                                                          335

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF
     ROY WOOD SELLARS                                                337
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT                               342
Index                                                                                   345

SOURCE: Sellars, Roy Wood. Principles of Emergent Realism: Philosophical Essays, compiled and edited by W. Preston Warren. St. Louis, MO: W. H. Green, 1970. xxvii, 352 pp.

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