The ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
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The ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
Routledge, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Wilfrid Sellars's ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars's view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate of an expressivism of plans and intentions, and an early theorist of collective intentionality. He supplemented this theory with a sophisticated logic of intentions, a robust theory of the categorical validity of normative expressions, a subtle way of reconciling the cognitive and motivating aspects of moral judgment, and much more-all within a strict nominalism that preserves Sellars's commitment to naturalism. The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars offers the first systematic treatment of this sadly-neglected aspect of Sellars's work, and demonstrates that his ethical theory-just like his more widely-discussed epistemology-has much to contribute to current debates.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Situating Sellars's Ethical Theory in the Contemporary Landscape
Chapter 1: Sellars's Synoptic Vision
Chapter 2: A New Naturalism
Chapter 3: Moral Judgments as Shared Intentions
Chapter 4: What Are Sellarsian We-Intentions?
Chapter 5: Practical Reasoning and the Logic of Intentions
Chapter 6: Material Practical Inference
Chapter 7: Cooperative Rationality and We-Intentions
Chapter 8: Defeasible Rules and the Particularist Challenge
Chapter 9: Rules, Pattern-Governed Behavior, and Collective Attitudes
Chapter 10: Moral Motivation 1-Against the Humean Account
Chapter 11: Moral Motivation 2-Sellars's Kantian Account
Chapter 12: Against Moral Foundationalism
Chapter 13: Categorical Validity and the Necessity of Community
Chapter 14: Sellars's Mistaken Formalism
Chapter 15: Sellars's Ethical Naturalism
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