Empricism and the Philosophy of Mind Week 1
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This reading group examines Wilfrid Sellars’s *Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind* and its challenge to the idea that experience can justify belief without involving concepts. For the first week, participants read pages 1-64, equivalent to the intro and Chapters 1-6.
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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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