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Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
The Metaphysics of Practice brings together his writings on practical philosophy--published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence--with an editorial introduction explaining how the pieces fit into Sellars's philosophy as a whole.
List of contents
- Editorial Notes
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Sources
- Editors' Introduction
- Part 1: The Moral Point of View
- 1: Mind, Meaning, and Behavior
- 2: Obligation and Motivation
- 3: "Ought" and Moral Principles
- 4: Science and Ethics
- 5: Reason and the Art of Living in Plato
- 6: Objectivity, Intersubjectivity, and the Moral Point of View
- Part 2 Agency and Moral Psychology: Intentions and Volitions
- 7: Thought and Action
- 8: Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person
- 9: Actions and Events
- 10: Volitions Reaffirmed
- Part 3 Free Will and Akrasia
- 11: Fatalism and Determinism
- 12: Reply to Alan Donagan
- 13: On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse
- Part 4 Deontic Logic, Practical Reason, and the Logic of Intentions
- 14: Imperatives, Intentions, and the Logic of "Ought"
- 15: Reflections on Contrary-to-Duty Imperatives
- 16: On Reasoning about Values
- 17: Conditional Promises and Conditional Intentions
- Part 5 Manuscripts and Correspondence
- 18: Practical Reasoning
- 19: Practical Reasoning Again
- 20: Hare-Sellars Correspondence
- 21: Binkley-Sellars Correspondence
- 22: Castañeda-Sellars Correspondence
- 23: Aune-Sellars Correspondence
- 24: Sellars to Solomon, 1976
- Index
About the author
Kyle Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Augustana College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, where he wrote his dissertation on Wilfrid Sellars's metaethical legacy. Ferguson completed an ethics fellowship in the Bioethics Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He has written or co-written a dozen articles and book chapters on metaethics, bioethics, and environmental ethics.
Jeremy Koons is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Qatar. Koons is the author of The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars (Routledge, 2019), the first in-depth work on this subject, and the co-editor (with Ronald Loeffler) of Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency: Wilfrid Sellars's Practical Philosophy (Routledge, 2023). He has also written or co-written two additional books as well as two dozen articles and book chapters on metaethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, and numerous other journals and edited volumes.
Summary
Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The Metaphysics of Practice brings together his writings on practical philosophy--published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence--with an editorial introduction explaining how the pieces fit into Sellars's philosophy as a whole.
