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Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue: Truths, Meanings, and Minds book cover

1st Edition

Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue Truths, Meanings, and Minds

Edited By Willem A. deVries, Marc A. Joseph Copyright 2025
332 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson were two of the most influential American philosophers of the 20th century. This volume explores the deep similarities and differences between these two philosophers. Both Sellars and Davidson worked through the mid-to-late 20 th -century re-evaluation of the empiricist inheritance that shaped what became analytic philosophy, and both are critical of key... Read more

Introduction
MARC A. JOSEPH AND WILLEM A. DEVRIES

1 Sellars, Davidson, meaning, and rules
MARC A. JOSEPH

2 Sellars and Davidson on meaning-matching
CHRISTOPHER GAUKER

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
MIRCEA DUMITRU

4 Who needs you? Sellars and Davidson on the social character of thought and meaning
MICHAEL P. WOLF

5 Is the mind–world relation a semantic relationship? Sellars and Davidson on the problem of access
ROBIN BEAUTÉ

6 Shadows in the space of reasons: Davidson and Sellars on two varieties of knowledge
CASEY DOYLE

7 Davidson and Sellars: Self-knowledge without introspection
CRISTINA BORGONI AND NICOLAS CUEVAS-ALVEAR

8 Psychological holism and psychological nominalism
GRAHAM BOUNDS

9 Davidson and Sellars: Ontology and regulatives
ELIZABETH F. COOKE

10 Davidson, Sellars, and the problem of predication
WILLEM A. DEVRIES

11 Why triangulation needs picturing (and conversely): Towards a new pragmatist realism
CARL B. SACHS

12 Davidson and Sellars on animal minds: Rationality and normativity
GORDON BRITTAN, JR. AND PRESTON STOVALL

13 Can humans think and reason? A divinely inspired response to the problem of animal rationality
MARGA REIMER

14 Sellars and Davidson on expressivism and the quest for moral objectivity
HEATH WHITE

Biography

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).

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