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Sellars and the Space of Reasons
[Sellars y el espacio de las razones]

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  • John Mcdowell

    (PITT - University of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE))

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In Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind Sellars introduces the image of the space of reasons, and delineates a non-traditional empiricism, uncontaminated by the Myth of the Given. Brandom takes Sellars's drift to be against empiricism as such, against the very idea that something deserving to be called "experience" could be relevant to the acquisition of empirical knowledge in any way except merely causally. In this paper I attack Brandom's idea that we anyway need a concession to externalism for non-inferential knowledge and suggest that in the space of reasons Sellars's, the experience play a more than merely causal role in a fully internalist epistemology of observation.

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  • John Mcdowell, 2018. "Sellars and the Space of Reasons [Sellars y el espacio de las razones]," Post-Print hal-02163086, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02163086
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2560006
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