Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy Routledge Studies in American Philosophy Series

This edited volume systematically addresses the connection between Wilfrid Sellars and the history of modern philosophy, exploring both the content and method of this relationship. It intends both to analyze Sellars? position in relation to singular thinkers of the modern tradition, and to inquire into Sellars? understanding of philosophy as a field in reflective and constructive conversation with its past. The chapters in Part I cover Sellars? interpretation and use of Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel. Part II features essays on his relationship with Peirce, Frege, Carnap, Wittgenstein, American pragmatism, behaviorism, and American realism, particularly his father, Roy Wood. Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy features original contributions by many of the most renowned Sellars scholars throughout the world. It offers an exhaustive survey of Sellars? views on the historical antecedents and meta-philosophical aspects of his thought.

Introduction: The Lingua Franca of Thought: Willfrid Sellars and the History of Philosophy

Part I: Sellars and Modern Philosophy

1. Sellars on Descartes

Christian Barth

2. The Lingua franca of Nominalism: Sellars on Leibniz

Antonio M. Nunziante

3. Sellars and Hume on the Ontological Status of Theoretical-Explanatory Entities

David Landy

4. Sellars’ Interpretive Variations on Kant’s Transcendental Idealist Themes

James R. O’Shea

5. Hegel After Sellars: Conceptual Connections

Luca Corti

Part II: Sellars and the Beginning of the Contemporary Age

6. Peirce and Sellars on Non-Conceptual Content

Catherine Legg

7. Sellars and Frege on Concepts and Laws

Danielle Macbeth

8. ‘We pragmatists mourn Sellars as a Lost Leader’: Sellars’ Pragmatist Distinction Between Signifying and Picturing

Carl Sachs

9. The Varieties and Origins of Wilfrid Sellars’ Behaviorism

Peter Olen

10. Sellars and Carnap: Science and/or Metaphysics

Carlo Gabbani

11. Sellars and Wittgenstein, Early and Late

Guido Bonino and Paolo Tripodi

12. Wilfrid Sellars and Roy Wood Sellars: Theoretical Continuities and Methodological Divergences

Fabio Gironi

Conclusions

13. Thinking with Sellars and Beyond Sellars: On the Relations Between Philosophy and the History of Philosophy

Luca Corti is the FCT Post-Doctoral Fellow at Mind, Language, Action Group at the University of Porto, Portugal and the International Center for Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published two books and several articles on Kant, Hegel and contemporary Hegelisms, as well as on Sellars and Sellarsian themes, including Senses and Sensations: on Hegel’s Later Picture of Perceptual Experience (2018), Conceptualism, Non-Conceptualism, and the Method of Hegel’s Psychology (2016), Ritratti hegeliani (2014), Crossing The Line: Sellars on Kant on Imagination (2012).

Antonio M. Nunziante is Associate Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. His research is in the history of ideas and is mainly focused on issues concerning naturalism and normativity in the Early Modern Philosophy (Leibniz), in the Classical German philosophy (Kant, Hegel) and in the pre-analytic American philosophy (early American naturalism). His works include: Infinite vs. Singularity. Between Leibniz and Hegel (2015), The "Morbid Fear of the Subjective". Privateness and Objectivity in Mid-twentieth Century American Naturalism (2013), Lo spirito naturalizzato. La stagione pre-analitica del naturalismo americano (2012), Representing Subjects, Mind-dependent Objects. Kant, Leibniz and the Amphiboly (with A. Vanzo, 2009), Individuals, Minds and Bodies: Themes from Leibniz (ed., "Studia Leibnitiana", 2004).