Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images

Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the philosophical agenda in the English-speaking world during the second half of the 20th century, and they remain an active focus of intense critical attention and lively discussion. Jay Rosenberg studied under Sellars in the early 1960s, was continuously engaged with his work for over forty years, and was widely regarded both as its foremost expositor and as one of Sellars' truest disciples. This was the last book that Rosenberg completed before his death at the age of only sixty-five. In it he gathers previously published studies of the central elements and implications of Sellars' philosophy, along with three new essays that further highlight and articulate the significance of his work, both historically and with respect to contemporary debates.

Introduction ; 1. Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars ; 2. Sellars and Quine: Compare and Contrast ; 3. The Elusiveness of Categories, the Archimedean Dilemma, and the Nature of Man ; 4. 1. Comparing the Incommensurable: Another Look at Convergent Realism ; 5. Sellarsian Picturing ; 6. Linguistic Roles and Proper Names ; 7. Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophy of Mind ; 8. Ryleans and Outlookers: Wilfrid Sellars on "Mental States" ; 9. The Place of Color in the Scheme of Things: A Roadmap to Sellars' Carus Lectures ; 10. Still Mythic After All Those Years: On Alston's Latest Defense of the Given ; 11. Perception vs. Inner Sense: A Problem about Direct Awareness ; 12. Sellarsian Seeing: In Search of Perceptual Authority ; 13. Divergent Intuitions: McDowell's Kant and Sellars' Kant ; Appendix: Sellars-Rosenberg Correspondence on Ontology, 1972-3 ; Master Bibliography