Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue - Truths, Meanings, and Minds

Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson were two of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century. This volume explores the deep similarities and differences between these two philosophers.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Sellars, Davidson, Meaning, and Rules 2. Sellars and Davidson on Meaning-Matching 3. Does a Tarskian Theory of Truth offer a Theory of Meaning? A Sellarsian-Type Evaluation and Critique of Donald Davidson's Truth-Conditional Semantics 4. Who Needs You? Sellars and Davidson on the Social Character of Thought and Meaning 5. Is the Mind-World Relation a Semantic Relationship? Sellars and Davidson on the Problem of Access 6. Shadows in the Space of Reasons: Davidson and Sellars on Two Varieties of Knowledge 7. Davidson and Sellars: Self-knowledge without Introspection 8. Psychological Holism and Psychological Nominalism 9. Davidson and Sellars: Ontology and Regulatives 10. Davidson, Sellars, and the Problem of Predication 11. Why Triangulation Needs Picturing (and Conversely): Towards a New Pragmatist Realism 12. Davidson and Sellars on Animal Minds: Rationality and Normativity 13. Can Humans Think and Reason? A Divinely Inspired Response to The Problem of Animal Rationality 14. Sellars and Davidson on Expressivism and the Quest for Moral Objectivity

About the author

Willem A. deVries is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. He works in the philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, especially Hegel and Sellars. He has published five books and numerous articles, and co-edits the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy.
Marc A. Joseph is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Mills College, Oakland, CA. He is the author of Donald Davidson (McGill-Queens/Routledge, 2004) and the editor of a revised translation and critical edition of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Willem A. (University of New Hampshire Devries
• Assisted by: Willem A. deVries (Editor), Joseph Marc A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032778853
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277885-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge