Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy

David Pereplyotchik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy, with a concentration in cognitive science, from the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Psychosyntax: The Nature of Grammar and Its Place in the Mind (2017) and is an active member of the Wilfrid Sellars Society.Deborah R. Barnbaum is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Kent State University. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts in 1996. She is the author of The Ethics of Autism (2008) and the co-author of Research Ethics: Text and Readings, with Michael Byron (2001).

• IntroductionDavid Pereplyotchik and Deborah R. BarnbaumPart I. Ethics, Moral Reasoning, and Free Will1. Thought, Freedom and Embodiment in Kant and SellarsJames O’Shea2. Toward a Sellarsian Ethics for the 21st CenturyJeremy Randel KoonsPart II. Philosophy of Language and Mind3. Pure Pragmatics and the Phenomenology of Linguistic Functions: On Sellars’ Non-Factualistic Conception of PhilosophyBoris Brandhoff4. What Jones Taught the Ryleans: Towards a Sellarsian Metaphysics of ThoughtMichael R. Hicks5. Sellars and PsycholinguisticsDavid Pereplyotchik6. Sentience and Sapience: The Place of Enactive Cognitive Science in Sellarsian Philosophy of MindCarl B. SachsPart III. Metaphysics and Epistemology7. Wilfrid Sellars Meets Cambridge PragmatismHuw Price8. An Incoherence in Sellars’ Error Theoretical Account of Color ConceptsKevin Fink9. The Causal Articulation of Practical RealityWillem A. deVries10. Natural TruthDanielle Macbeth11. Does Brandom’s Kant-Sellars Thesis about Modality Undermine Sellars’ Scientific Naturalism?Dionysis Christias12. On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the CategoriesRobert B. BrandomPart IV. Author Meets Critics Robert B. Brandom, Willem A. deVries , and James O’Shea

"[This] is an outstanding collection that perfectly encapsulates what is at stake in Sellars' contemporary resurgence. None of its contributors are content with exegesis: each uses Sellars to intervene in ongoing debates about the nature of mind, meaning, knowledge, and action, as well as the relation between appearance and reality. Its uniform excellence is due not only to the quality of its content but also to the fact that it has been superbly edited. Each chapter marshals its arguments with exemplary economy; claims and counter-‐claims are cross-referenced along with recurring themes to ensure constructive interaction. The result is a volume that succeeds in casting genuinely new light on Sellars' thought." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews