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Wilfrid Sellars on Science and Reality

Kazemi, Alireza | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 47948 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Azadegan, Ebrahim
  7. Abstract:
  8. Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (1912-1989) is an analytic philosopher whose philosophy is famous for being deep, systematic and extremely influential and notorious for being difficult to read. Although he has many original and interconnected ideas in different branches of philosophy- including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language and meta-philosophy- the place of science in his system is completely indispensable. In his meta-philosophy, Sellars defines his philosophical project as an attempt to reconcile two distinct world-views of humanity in the modern word; scientific image and manifest image. Approaching Sellars’ philosophy by placing science at the focal point sheds new light on many obscure themes in his system. On the other hand, most of the contemporary philosophers of science who have admitted their debt to Sellars, lack this systematic view or at least prefer to make use of dispersed and atomic insights of this system. To name a few, Roy Bhaskar, Van Fraassen, Paul Churchland, Larry Laudan and Stathis Psillos come to mind. In this thesis, I aim at a new reading of different ideas of Sellars by giving centrality to his conception of science and its relation to the modern man and other philosophical disciplines. The result would be a complex and systematic picture in which understanding every part depends on an overview of the whole system. Sellars’ main philosophical essays and important interpretations developed by his proponents and opponents would be the main resource of this thesis
  9. Keywords:
  10. Scientific Realism ; Wilfrid Sellars ; Scientific Realism ; Manifest Image ; Myth of the Given ; Inferentialism

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