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Empricism and the Philosophy of Mind Week 2

Saturday, November 7
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Pier 57, Manhattan
25 11th Avenue, New York, NY · Map ↗
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The meeting focuses on *Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind* and its challenge to the idea that experience can justify belief without involving concepts. Participants should read the entire reading before attending.

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The early analytic tradition combined empiricism, which had been present in philosophy for some time, with the new tools of logic in an attempt to place mathematics, science, and philosophy more broadly on a firmer foundation than ever before. By the middle of the twentieth century, these initial ambitions seemed overly extravagant, as many of the problems that had long plagued empiricism were resurfacing. In 1956, Wilfrid Sellars responded to this state of affairs with *Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind*, encouraging analytic philosophy to …

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