Form and Content in Ethical Theory

This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1967, given by Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989), an American philosopher

Il naturalismo oggi. Abbozzo di una mappa e alcune riflessioni

This paper tries to draw a map of the various versions of naturalism to which the current philosophical debate aims – from the most radical, or ‘hard’ ones, to the mild-est, or liberal ones – and of the different projects of naturalization that are associated to them. In particular, in the first paragraphs, the present article will consider Timothy Williamson’s and Penelope Maddy’s attempts to inherit the demands of naturalism with-out declaring to be a naturalist (Williamson), or without making naturalism an empty slogan or a kind of masked first philosophy (Maddy). In the second part, the connec-tions between epistemological naturalism and ontological or metaphysical naturalism will be analysed. The questions will be: (1) is it possible to be naturalist with regard to epistemology without being naturalist with regard to ontology?; (2) is it possible to be ontologically naturalist without being epistemologically naturalist

A Sellarsian Approach to the Normativism-Antinormativism Controversy

In this article, it is argued that Sellars’ view of normativity is the key for a proper resolution of the debate between normativism and anti-normativism, as the latter is described in Turner’s recent book Explaining the Normative. Drawing on an early Sellarsian article (“A Semantical Solution to the Mind-Body Problem”), I suggest that both normativism and anti-normativism (including Turner’s brand of the latter) are ultimately unsatisfactory positions and for the same reason: due to their failure to draw a distinction between causal or explanatory reducibility and logical or conceptual reducibility of the normative to the non-normative. © The Author(s) 2014

Counterfactuals, dispositions, and the causal modalities

1 online resource (PDF, page 225-308)Sellars, Wilfrid. (1958). Counterfactuals, dispositions, and the causal modalities. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/184618

Empiricism and the philosophy of mind

Sellars, Wilfrid. (1956). Empiricism and the philosophy of mind. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/184083

Reading in ethical theory

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