Abstract
Robert Brandom’s discussion of Sellars’s two-ply account of observation in his Tales of the Mighty Dead makes several crucial errors that would make Sellars’s analysis of “looks”-sentences incoherent. Brandom does not recognise the difference in “level” between observation reports concerning physical objects and “looks”-reports, and he denies that “looks”-sentences are reports or even make claims. We argue that a careful reading of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind does not support Brandom’s interpretation, and show how to read Sellars properly on the analysis of such sentences.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism |
| Subtitle of host publication | Essays on Wilfrid Sellars |
| Editors | Willem de Vries |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| Pages | 131-145 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Volume | chapter 5 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-957330-1, 0199573301 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |