Hegelian Spirits in Sellarsian Bottles

Philosophical Studies:1-12 (2016)
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Though Wilfrid Sellars portrayed himself as a latter-day Kantian, I argue here that he was at least as much a Hegelian. Several themes Sellars shares with Hegel are investigated: the sociality and normativity of the intentional, categorial change, the rejection of the given, and especially their denial of an unknowable thing-in-itself. They are also united by an emphasis on the unity of things—the belief that things do ‘‘hang together.’’ Hegel’s unity is idealist; Sellars’ is physicalist; the differences are substantial, but so are the resonances.

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reprint deVries, Willem A. (2017) "Hegelian Spirits in Sellarsian bottles". Philosophical Studies 174(7):1643-1654

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Willem A. DeVries
University of New Hampshire, Durham

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Hegel and Sellars on the Unity of Things.Willem A. deVries - 2019 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (3):363-378.
The Non-Conceptual Dimension of Social Mediation: Toward a Materialist Aufhebung of Hegel.Dionysis Christias - 2019 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (3):448-473.

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