Wilfrid Sellars on Truth

Between Immanence and Transcendence

Stefanie Dach (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)

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Routledge
06 December 2024

Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind; History of ideas

Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars’s notion of ideal truth.

Sellars adopts two attractive ideas about truth: the pragmatist idea that the concept of truth cannot be understood independently from the norms and practices we find ourselves with and the realist idea that there is one ultimate truth about how the world is. Sellars is thus committed both to an immanent notion of truth and an ideal notion of truth. This book discusses these countervailing tendencies and tries to reconcile them. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts. Additionally, the author defends several innovative claims with respect to Sellars’s thinking, for example, about the relative unimportance of his controversial concept of pictorial adequacy and about the neglected significance of considerations concerning context-sensitive expressions in his thought.

Wilfrid Sellars on Truth will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wilfrid Sellars, pragmatism, and questions about truth, naturalism, and scientific realism.

By: Stefanie Dach (University of West Bohemia Czech Republic)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032807256
ISBN 10: 1032807253
Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 06 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Introduction 2. The Problem Space 3. Learning from Others 4. A Modest Sellarsian Approach 5. Conclusion: Sellars and the Rortean Challenge 6. Appendices

Stefanie Dach is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of West Bohemia. She received her PhD in 2018 for a dissertation on Wilfrid Sellars. She has published a book about Richard Rorty and several articles about Wilfrid Sellars, particularly his practical philosophy, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Reviews for Wilfrid Sellars on Truth: Between Immanence and Transcendence

"""We are haunted by the ideal of the truth about the world. If you are wondering where to begin or end in distinguishing 'immanent' from 'ideal truth', put Sellars on Truth at the top of your reading list. Analyses of ‘true’ and ’correct’ as context-sensitive expressions have led scholars to ask ‘who makes the rules around here?’ Bringing light to the otherwise dark claim that only a proper analysis of ""truth as ideally assertible"" enables ""giving metaphysics its truly scientific turn"", Dach ushers Sellars scholarship into its metametaphysical phase."" Luz Christopher Seiberth, University of Potsdam, DE"