PHI 3398 Chapter : Lecture 1 - Sellars
4 Dec 2013
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Sellars philosophy and the scientific image of man. Attended the university of pittsburg; was also accepted into many other well-known universities. He was heavily influenced by kant and created a dialogue with thinkers of the past (plato, descartes, etc. ) in his work. Sellars would later be an influence on mcdowell. When looking at the philosophical problem of reconciling the scientific and manifest image of man in the world, he turned to tradition. The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Things in the broadest possible sense" i include such radically different items a not only. Cabbages and kings, but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. Sellars, philosophy and the scientific image of man", p. 1. Have an understanding of how all these things hang together (fit/come together)
