From Empiricism to Expressivism – Brandom Reads Sellars - Couverture rigide

Brandom, Robert B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674187288 ISBN 13 : 9780674187283

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of contemporary empiricists. "From Empiricism to Expressivism" is a far-reaching reinterpretation of Sellars from one of the philosopher s most brilliant intellectual heirs. Unifying and extending Sellars s most important ideas, Robert Brandom constructs a theory of pragmatic expressivism which, in contrast to empiricism, understands meaning and knowledge in terms of the role expressions play in social practices. The key lies in Sellars s radical reworking of Kant s idea of the categories: the idea that the expressive job characteristic of many of the most important philosophical concepts is not to describe or explain the empirical world but rather to make explicit essential features of the conceptual framework that makes description and explanation possible. Brandom reconciles otherwise disparate elements of Sellars s system, revealing a greater level of coherence and consistency in the philosopher s arguments against empiricism than has usually been acknowledged. "From Empiricism to Expressivism" clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase, and why such a move might be of crucial importance today."

Revue de presse :

"From Empiricism to Expressivism "is a coherently developed and highly original interpretation of Sellars s philosophy, read in a way that simultaneously defends Brandom s own very widely discussed analytic pragmatism. One of the most important achievements of the book is to unify and extend crucial metalinguistic aspects of Sellars s work that were central to some of Sellars s most influential views about meaning, normativity, and modality, but key aspects of which received only scattered and uneven treatment in Sellars s own writings. This book represents the most sophisticated and penetrating interpretation of Sellars s philosophy available, past and present. --James O'Shea, University College Dublin"

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0674187288
• ISBN 13: 9780674187283
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304