Normativity, Lifeworld, and Science in Sellars’ Synoptic Vision

Dionysis Christias is Research Associate Professor at the Research Center for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens. He is also the Research Director of a 3-year funded research project entitled: The Philosophical Implications of Cognitive Neuroscience: Overcoming the Representation Wars. He received his Ph.D. from University of Athens in 2010.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Prelude: Sellars’ Project and Its Essential Tension.- Part I Sellars and Phenomenology: Lifeworld and Science.- 3.Husserl’s Lifeworld and the Scientific Image.- 4.Lifeworld Phenomenology After Husserl: Merleau-Ponty, Enactivism, Heiddeger and Science.- 5.Toward a Non-representational Conception of Science and the Lifeworld.- Part II Sellars’ Relevance for Continental Philosophy.- 6. Toward the Thing-in-Itself: Sellars’ and Meillassoux’s Divergent Conception of Kantian Transcendentalism.- 7.Deleuze and Sellars on Ontology and Normativity.- Part III Unifying the Manifest and the Scientific Images.- 8.Sellars’ Synoptic Vision: Unifying the Images at the Level of the Lifeworld.- Part IV Persons, Free Will and Processes.- 9.Persons as Normative Functions in a Nominalistic Process World.- 10.Free Will in a Scientifically Disenchanted World.- Part V Philosophy, Disenchantment and Self-Critique.- 11.The Dialectic Between Manifest and Scientific Imagein the Wake of Weberian Disenchantment.- Part VI Scientific Naturalism and Non-instrumental Values.- 12.Science and the Objectification of Values: A Sellarsian Response to the Continental Critique of Science.