Legacy of Kant in Sellars and Meillassoux

Fabio Gironi holds an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has published numerous articles on realism in contemporary continental philosophy, on Wilfrid Sellars, and on Quentin Meillassoux.

• IntroductionFabio Gironi1. After Kant, Sellars, and Meillassoux: Back to Empirical Realism?James R. O’Shea2. Sellars and Meillassoux: a Most Unlikely EncounterAude Bandini3. Correlation, Speculation, and the Modal Kant-Sellars ThesisRay Brassier4. Speculative Materialism or Pragmatic Naturalism?: Sellars contra MeillassouxCarl B. Sachs5. How to Know that we Know? The contemporary Post-Kantian problem of a priori synthetic judgmentsAnna Longo6. Toward the Thing-in Itself: Sellars’ and Meillassoux’s Divergent Conception of Kantian TranscendentalismDionysis Christias7. A Plea for Narcissus. On the Transcendental Reflexion /\ Refraction Mediation TandemGabriel Catren8. Speculating the Real: On Quentin Meillassoux’s Philosophical RealismJoseph Cohen9. ‘It is not until we have eaten the apple’: Forestalling the Necessity of ContingencyMuhannad Hariri10. Puncturing the Circle of Correlation: Rationalism, Materialism, and DialecticsDaniel Sacilotto

"The volume does achieve something important: it demonstrates that Meillassoux's speculative materialism is not an eccentric position to be found in some far-off corner of continental philosophy, but a serious and interesting position that should be engaged by those who stand in other traditions of contemporary philosophy." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"This book takes up the contemporary legacy of Kant and his transcendental idealism in dialogue with two of his most influential recent interpreters: Wilfrid Sellars and Quentin Meillassoux. Though situated on different sides of the analytic/continental divide, both of these philosophers’ interpretations have revitalized the discussion of Kant’s philosophy and its associated metaphysics and transformed it for contemporary philosophical discussion. This is the first book to bring Sellars’ and Meillassoux’s respective treatments of Kant explicitly into dialogue and, as such, will be essential in laying the groundwork for a twenty-first century discussion of Kant’s epistemology and metaphysics beyond the analytic/continental divide." —Paul M. Livingston, University of New Mexico, USA