Wilfrid Sellars on Truth - Between Immanence and Transcendence

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar's notion of ideal truth. The author's defense of Sellars's notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars's texts.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The Problem Space 3. Learning from Others 4. A Modest Sellarsian Approach 5. Conclusion: Sellars and the Rortean Challenge 6. Appendices

About the author

Stefanie Dach is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of West Bohemia. She received her PhD in 2018 for a dissertation on Wilfrid Sellars. She has published a book about Richard Rorty and several articles about Wilfrid Sellars, particularly his practical philosophy, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Summary

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar’s notion of ideal truth. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts.

Product details

• Authors: Stefanie Dach, Stefanie (University of West Bohemia Dach
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032807256
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3280725-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge