Empiricism and the philosophy of mind
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Empiricism and the philosophy of mind
Harvard University Press, 1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Note
Taken from Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, v. 1, The Foundations of science and the concepts of psychology and psychoanalysis
"...Originally published in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, vol. 1., ed. Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956)."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in essay form in 1956, this book presents Sellars' entire philosophical system and his attack on the Myth of the Given, which raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology". An introduction situates the work within the history of recent philosophy.
Table of Contents
- An ambiguity in sense-datum theories
- another language?
- the logic of "looks"
- explaining looks
- impressions and ideas - a logical point
- impressions and ideas - a historical point
- the logic of "means"
- does empirical knowledge have a foundation?
- science and ordinary usage
- private episodes - the problem
- thoughts - the classical view
- our Rylean ancestors
- theories and models
- methodological versus philosophical behaviourism
- the logic of private episodes - thoughts
- the logic of private episodes - impressions.
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