Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy

David Pereplyotchik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy, with a concentration in cognitive science, from the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Psychosyntax: The Nature of Grammar and Its Place in the Mind (2017) and is an active member of the Wilfrid Sellars Society. Deborah R. Barnbaum is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Kent State University. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts in 1996. She is the author of The Ethics of Autism (2008) and the co-author of Research Ethics: Text and Readings, with Michael Byron (2001).

Introduction, David Pereplyotchik and Deborah R. Barnbaum

Part I. Ethics, Moral Reasoning, and Free Will

1. Thought, Freedom and Embodiment in Kant and Sellars

James O’Shea

2. Toward a Sellarsian Ethics for the 21st Century

Jeremy Randel Koons

Part II. Philosophy of Language and Mind

3. Pure Pragmatics and the Phenomenology of Linguistic Functions: On Sellars’ Non-Factualistic Conception of Philosophy

Boris Brandhoff

4. What Jones Taught the Ryleans: Towards a Sellarsian Metaphysics of Thought

Michael R. Hicks

5. Sellars and Psycholinguistics

David Pereplyotchik

6. Sentience and Sapience: The Place of Enactive Cognitive Science in Sellarsian Philosophy of Mind

Carl B. Sachs

Part III. Metaphysics and Epistemology

7. Wilfrid Sellars Meets Cambridge Pragmatism

Huw Price

8. An Incoherence in Sellars’ Error Theoretical Account of Color Concepts

Kevin Fink

9. The Causal Articulation of Practical Reality

Willem A. deVries

10. Natural Truth

Danielle Macbeth

11. Does Brandom’s Kant-Sellars Thesis about Modality Undermine Sellars’ Scientific Naturalism?

Dionysis Christias

12. On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories

Robert B. Brandom

Part IV Author Meets Critics

Robert B. Brandom, Willem A. deVries , and James O’Shea